netdev - [PATCH net 2/3] Documentation: Clarify trap's description

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Message-Id: <20190926114340.9483-3-idosch@idosch.org>
Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:43:39 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, jiri@...lanox.com, alexanderk@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/3] Documentation: Clarify trap's description

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

Alex noted that the below description might not be obvious to all users.
Clarify it by adding an example.

Fixes: f3047ca01f12 ("Documentation: Add devlink-trap documentation")
Reported-by: Alex Kushnarov <alexanderk@...lanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Kushnarov <alexanderk@...lanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/devlink-trap.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-trap.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink-trap.rst
index c20c7c483664..8e90a85f3bd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink-trap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink-trap.rst
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ be added to the following table:
    * - ``port_list_is_empty``
      - ``drop``
      - Traps packets that the device decided to drop in case they need to be
-       flooded and the flood list is empty
+       flooded (e.g., unknown unicast, unregistered multicast) and there are
+       no ports the packets should be flooded to
    * - ``port_loopback_filter``
      - ``drop``
      - Traps packets that the device decided to drop in case after layer 2
-- 
2.21.0