netdev - [PATCH] net: dsa: Remove documentation for port_fdb

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Date:   Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:07:45 +0100
From:   Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     arkadis@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Subject: [PATCH] net: dsa: Remove documentation for port_fdb_prepare

This callback was removed some time ago, also remove the documentation.

Fixes: 1b6dd556c304 ("net: dsa: Remove prepare phase for FDB")
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
---
 Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
index 25170ad7d25b..101f2b2c69ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -533,16 +533,12 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
   function that the driver has to call for each VLAN the given port is a member
   of. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and bridge flags.
 
-- port_fdb_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
-  installation of a Forwarding Database entry. If the operation is not
-  supported, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge code
-  to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware setup must be done in
-  this function. See port_fdb_add for this and details.
-
 - port_fdb_add: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install a
   Forwarding Database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed with the
   specified address in the specified VLAN Id in the forwarding database
-  associated with this VLAN ID
+  associated with this VLAN ID. If the operation is not supported, this
+  function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge code to fallback to
+  a software implementation.
 
 Note: VLAN ID 0 corresponds to the port private database, which, in the context
 of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
-- 
2.20.1