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| author | Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com> | 2021-12-09 12:09:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> | 2021-12-21 19:08:55 -0800 |
| commit | 0ad598d0be228aca56086ead4e164f7354cd3b57 (patch) | |
| tree | c78767c8f87bbffe27f58b3acec67e30f0543bd3 /Documentation | |
| parent | 57ca767820ade09ee3e3c53bfeb5543ba7c00ab0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0ad598d0be228aca56086ead4e164f7354cd3b57.tar.bz2 | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst index da0b5e7f8eec..4e01dc32bc08 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. |