Pleasantly, the patch author seems to have taken it pretty well and apologized, while Linus further explained his view with a bit less zeal. Looks like a pretty

Pleasantly, the patch author seems to have taken it pretty well and apologized, while Linus further explained his view with a bit less zeal. Looks like a pretty good ending all around. There's room to talk about how much zeal is too much, but it certainly seems far better than the "silence till firing" approach people describe at some big companies.