From:   Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc:     jiri@nvidia.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] devlink: Clarifies max_macs generic devlink param
Date:   Wed,  8 Dec 2021 16:17:21 +0200
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The generic param max_macs documentation isn't clear.
Replace it with a more descriptive documentation

Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
index 0eddee6e66f3..2cbdce4e6a1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
@@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ own name.
        errors.
    * - ``max_macs``
      - u32
-     - Specifies the maximum number of MAC addresses per ethernet port of
-       this device.
+     - Typically macvlan, vlan net devices mac are also programmed in their
+       parent netdevice's Function rx filter. This parameter limit the
+       maximum number of unicast mac address filters to receive traffic from
+       per ethernet port of this device.
    * - ``region_snapshot_enable``
      - Boolean
      - Enable capture of ``devlink-region`` snapshots.
-- 
2.21.3