diff --git a/man/udevadm.xml b/man/udevadm.xml
index b7a2494f83..0107c57576 100644
--- a/man/udevadm.xml
+++ b/man/udevadm.xml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
       </title>
       <para>Request device events from the kernel. Primarily used to replay events at system coldplug time.</para>
 
-      <para>Takes a device specification as a positional argument. See the description of <command>info</command>
+      <para>Takes device specifications as positional arguments. See the description of <command>info</command>
       above.</para>
 
       <variablelist>
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
           <term><option>--name-match=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching device path. When this option is specified more than once,
-            the last <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is used.</para>
+            then each matching result is ORed, that is, all specified devices are triggered.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
           <term><option>--parent-match=<replaceable>SYSPATH</replaceable></option></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>Trigger events for all children of a given device. When this option is specified more than once,
-            the last <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is used.</para>
+            then each matching result is ORed, that is, all children of each specified device are triggered.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
@@ -332,8 +332,8 @@
         <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
       </variablelist>
 
-      <para>In addition, an optional positional argument can be used
-      to specify device name or sys path. It must start with
+      <para>In addition, optional positional arguments can be used
+      to specify device names or sys paths. They must start with
       <filename>/dev</filename> or <filename>/sys</filename>
       respectively.</para>
     </refsect2>
diff --git a/src/udev/udevadm-trigger.c b/src/udev/udevadm-trigger.c
index 95329469e3..2a658158e6 100644
--- a/src/udev/udevadm-trigger.c
+++ b/src/udev/udevadm-trigger.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ int trigger_main(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
                         if (r < 0)
                                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to open the device '%s': %m", optarg);
 
-                        r = sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(e, dev);
+                        r = device_enumerator_add_match_parent_incremental(e, dev);
                         if (r < 0)
                                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add parent match '%s': %m", optarg);
                         break;
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int trigger_main(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
                         if (r < 0)
                                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to open the device '%s': %m", optarg);
 
-                        r = sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(e, dev);
+                        r = device_enumerator_add_match_parent_incremental(e, dev);
                         if (r < 0)
                                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add parent match '%s': %m", optarg);
                         break;
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ int trigger_main(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
                 if (r < 0)
                         return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to open the device '%s': %m", argv[optind]);
 
-                r = sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(e, dev);
+                r = device_enumerator_add_match_parent_incremental(e, dev);
                 if (r < 0)
                         return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add parent match '%s': %m", argv[optind]);
         }