[smewpy]

That style has merit. Whomever submitted that code, which obviously resulted in creating extra work to waste Linus' time, that person has many choices, such as leaving and never contributing again, or improving their code before next submit which might actually help the project. If they choose to tough it out improve their code in future submissions, then they will likely also have improved themselves in a lot of ways. Otherwise, they can just go away, and at least in this popular project, there is a chance they will be replaced by a much better talent.

[nknighthb]

The code may be bogus, but that's not actually what set Linus off. The target of his fury is not the code's author (Kees Cook, who is unlikely to be driven off by a Linus rant anyway), but trusted lieutenants who missed an obvious problem in a serious process failure. Gleixner has been around the better part of a decade, and hpa's contributions date back to the early 90s.

This is a "You know better than this!" rant, not an attack on some new guy.