diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 84125088c309afb988daa4b24368c2d9e0f02588..2ea2c55bdc8788014aedaf113f563b3bd1941642 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ struct genl_info;
  * @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
  * @netnsok: set to true if the family can handle network
  *	namespaces and should be presented in all of them
+ * @parallel_ops: operations can be called in parallel and aren't
+ *	synchronized by the core genetlink code
  * @pre_doit: called before an operation's doit callback, it may
  *	do additional, common, filtering and return an error
  * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may