netdev - Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!"

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Message-Id: <20081218.195433.203436159.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:54:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mpm@...enic.com
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!"

From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:49:21 -0600

> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 16:15 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:50:34 -0600
> > 
> > > If you want, we can instead say "Peer %d unexpectedly shrunk window...".
> > > So long as the scary bit is gone, I don't care.
> > 
> > Since we have established that the blame is equally possible to
> > be the local as the remote system, something like:
> > 
> > 	TCP: Unexpected shrink of advertised window detected ...
> > 
> > is probably the best.
> 
> How's this:
> 
> The original message was unhelpful and extremely alarming to our poor
> users, despite its charm. Make it less frightening.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks Matt.
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