From 617745eca027dc17c37718a67f82700caef5be3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin London <kevinlondon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:26:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update description of OrderingFilter

I added a brief description of how you could specify a different query parameter for the OrderingFilter.
---
 rest_framework/filters.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rest_framework/filters.py b/rest_framework/filters.py
index 96d15eb9d..c3b846aed 100644
--- a/rest_framework/filters.py
+++ b/rest_framework/filters.py
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ class OrderingFilter(BaseFilterBackend):
     def get_ordering(self, request):
         """
         Ordering is set by a comma delimited ?ordering=... query parameter.
+        
+        The `ordering` query parameter can be overridden by setting
+        the `ordering_param` value on the OrderingFilter or by
+        specifying an `ORDERING_PARAM` value in the API settings.
         """
         params = request.QUERY_PARAMS.get(self.ordering_param)
         if params: