[ZeroGravitas]

I wonder how this whole thing would have gone down if the original bug report had simply described the problem rather than demanded their preferred solution to what they thought the problem was.

Linus and others keep acting like the bug was "systemd floods the kernel logs when I pass the debug flag" but it was actually it was "Do not parse "debug" command line ".

The obvious answer to the first is " Sorry about that, the bug is fixed in master branch".

The obvious answer to the second is "No, that's what it's for"

[Tobu]

I think Linus has been pretty clear on both topics (fix A, and if you won't, fix B) and on general policy (don't break it for users or I don't want to work with you in the kernel). Yeah, the reporter could have framed it better from the start, but the developers are supposed to be adults and handle imperfect bug reports too.

FWIW, I don't really consider the first issue fixed. The trigger was lost in a refactoring that can't be backported, and there are probably other ways to trigger the issue.