[PATCH net-next v2 5/6] devlink: Clarifies max_macs generic devlink param

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From: Shay Drory <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-08 07:03:42
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Subsystem: documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

2 review trailers.

The generic param max_macs documentation isn't clear.
Replace it with a more descriptive documentation

Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <redacted>
---
 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.
-- 
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