[jacquesm]

Agreed, but OP made himself part of that bureaucracy entirely voluntarily. It's as if I show up to a casino and start playing without familiarizing myself with the rules and the environment first. Note that the kernel maintainers are in general getting a lot of crap for doing a very large amount of work and that this sort of post that attacks a particular maintainer by name is really damaging, far more so than if the OP had never submitted their patch in the first place.

[phendrenad2]

Absolutely agree. But remember that this affects all of us, because "with many eyes all bugs are shallow" only works if lots of people show up and contribute.