netdev - [PATCH iproute2 6/6] man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting

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Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:45:02 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2 6/6] man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Talking to varios people, it became apparent that there is a certain
ambiguity in the description of these flags. They refer to egress
flooding, which should perhaps be stated more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
 man/man8/bridge.8 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index d0bcd708bb61..9d8663bd23cc 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8
@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ bridge FDB.
 
 .TP
 .BR "flood on " or " flood off "
-Controls whether a given port will flood unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. By default this flag is on.
+Controls whether unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry will be
+flooded towards this given port. By default this flag is on.
 
 .TP
 .B hwmode
@@ -413,8 +414,8 @@ switch.
 
 .TP
 .BR "mcast_flood on " or " mcast_flood off "
-Controls whether a given port will flood multicast traffic for which
-there is no MDB entry. By default this flag is on.
+Controls whether multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry will be
+flooded towards this given port. By default this flag is on.
 
 .TP
 .BR "mcast_to_unicast on " or " mcast_to_unicast off "
-- 
2.25.1