From: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 10:09:28 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: devlink: Clarifies max_macs generic devlink param
X-Git-Tag: v5.17-rc1~170^2~142^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ad598d0be228aca56086ead4e164f7354cd3b57;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

devlink: Clarifies max_macs generic devlink param

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>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
index da0b5e7f8eec1..4e01dc32bc084 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.