[ramk]

Good point that his style and profanity is intentional. But perhaps he uses the non-civil tone to drive home the point which he makes it clearer in the follow up mail [1]. Especially because the original commit message [2] he is complaining about goes overboard in appealing to the C standards and I think Linus is concerned that other people might think that is the recommended approach when the opposite is true as far as the Linux kernel code is concerned.

[1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/774 [2]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux...