From 54a02f25ba89a0c3ec1f2f0d739bcc1792874bc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "C. R. Oldham" <cro@ncbt.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:58:40 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Document that inotify is Linux only

---
 salt/beacons/inotify.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/salt/beacons/inotify.py b/salt/beacons/inotify.py
index f9e99ef90f..87a3240168 100644
--- a/salt/beacons/inotify.py
+++ b/salt/beacons/inotify.py
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Watch files and translate the changes into salt events
             setting the `disable_during_state_run` flag to `True` in
             the beacon configuration.
 
+:note: The `inotify` beacon only works on OSes that have `inotify` kernel support.
+       Currently this excludes FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows.
+
 '''
 # Import Python libs
 from __future__ import absolute_import