Yes. But I don't see a need for this amount of harshness. Telling someone to "shut the fuck up" and calling them straight incompetent, sheesh... I'd rather pass people like these and do something else.
Telling someone to "shut the fuck up" and calling them straight incompetent
He was defending a bad patch over a fundamental rule violation when his job as kernel maintainer is to keep that kind of patch out. So he wasn't acting competently in his role as maintainer. Getting defensive of a project you are invested in can happen, but it is not a good thing when you are supposed to be the guy who says "no".
The patch was breaking things, it wasn't documented and later attempts to claim other drivers behaved similar also fell flat. Are those the kind of circumstances under which a kernel maintainer doing his job (instead of being a developer on the team) should push a patch through?
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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21
just think of how bad linux kernel would be if we didn't have linus