netdev - [PATCH] net: Correct type of tcp

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Date:   Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:08:18 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: Correct type of tcp_syncookies sysctl.


It can take on the values of '0', '1', and '2' and thus
is not a boolean.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied and pushed out to 'net'.

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index fd26788e8c96..48ccb1b31160 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
 	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
 	for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
 
-tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
+tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
 	Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
 	Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
 	overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
-- 
2.20.1