[chippiewill]

Linus isn't behaving greatly here, but having a read through of the whole mailing list thread I'm actually fairly understanding of his reaction for once.

Here's this big project that Kent's been wanting to merge for ages and very basic steps that any Kernel developer would be aware of (like sending it to linux-next first) have not been done.

[yukkuri]

Linus is the king of not behaving well, and his position of "owning" the most popular kernel allows him to get away with it.

Yes Kent isn't following the right process but he made a more fundamental mistake: getting involved with Linux development at all.