From 89c2bac6353a818982c603e26a6f089ef8d3b978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jessica Greene <jessica0greene@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:07:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #54728: Docs: Update doc string to not reference
 deprecated function fillna for ffill

---
 pandas/core/generic.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 954573febed41..09ebd9387220f 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -7348,7 +7348,7 @@ def ffill(
         downcast: dict | None | lib.NoDefault = lib.no_default,
     ) -> Self | None:
         """
-        Synonym for :meth:`DataFrame.fillna` with ``method='ffill'``.
+        Fill NA/NaN values by propagating the last valid observation to next valid.
 
         Returns
         -------