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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 14:32:36 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add devlink param
 for ATU hash algorithm.

On Fri,  4 Oct 2019 23:09:34 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mv88e6xxx.txt b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mv88e6xxx.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..cc5c1ac87c36
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mv88e6xxx.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> +ATU_hash		[DEVICE, DRIVER-SPECIFIC]
> +			Select one of four possible hashing algorithms for
> +			MAC addresses in the Address Translation Unity.
> +			A value of 3 seems to work better than the default of
> +			1 when many MAC addresses have the same OUI.
> +			Configuration mode: runtime

I think it's common practice to specify the type here? Otherwise looks
good to me, thanks for adding it!