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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
index c8bd246d4010..330a76c2fab6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
@@ -970,9 +970,12 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
this port forwarding database
-- ``port_fdb_dump``: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
- function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
- the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and FDB info.
+- ``port_fdb_dump``: bridge bypass function invoked by ``ndo_fdb_dump`` on the
+ physical DSA port interfaces. Since DSA does not attempt to keep in sync its
+ hardware FDB entries with the software bridge, this method is implemented as
+ a means to view the entries visible on user ports in the hardware database.
+ The entries reported by this function have the ``self`` flag in the output of
+ the ``bridge fdb show`` command.
- ``port_mdb_add``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install
a multicast database entry. If the operation is not supported, this function