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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:18:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hagen@...u.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] socket: increase default maximum listen queue
 length

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:52:53 +0100

> The number is somewhat magically - like many other values. I greped
> tglx/history.git but the comment (at that time tcp_ipv4.c) seems pre 2002 era.

Then don't use that number as part of the justification for the
change.

Describe what matters, and only what matters.  Providing magic and
arbitrary numbers doesn't help people reading your commit message.
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