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

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Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:15:13 -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 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.
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