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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c6a9c9a8b..db141384d 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
## Modules ##
- *oemid* is a new module for configuring OEM phase-0 (image pre-mastering,
- or pre-deployment) things. It has limited functionality at the moment.
+ or pre-deployment) things. It has limited functionality at the moment,
+ writing only a single batch-identifier file.
- All Python modules now bail out gracefully on (at least some) bad
configurations, rather than raising an exception. The pre-release
scripts now test for exceptions to avoid shipping modules with
diff --git a/src/modules/oemid/oemid.conf b/src/modules/oemid/oemid.conf
index 36233858c..8f9bc3d08 100644
--- a/src/modules/oemid/oemid.conf
+++ b/src/modules/oemid/oemid.conf
@@ -4,4 +4,10 @@
# This value is put into the text box as the **suggested**
# OEM ID. If @@DATE@@ is included in the identifier, then
# that is replaced by the current date in yyyy-MM-dd (ISO) format.
+#
+# it is ok for the identifier to be empty.
+#
+# The identifier is written to the file as UTF-8 (this will be no
+# different from ASCII, for most inputs) and followed by a newline.
+# If the identifier is empty, only a newline is written.
batch-identifier: neon-@@DATE@@