The profanity is in the original post ("Stop gthis f*cking idiocy already!", "bogus SHIT"). From my viewpoint, the problem with the personal attack is the over

The profanity is in the original post ("Stop gthis f*cking idiocy already!", "bogus SHIT"). From my viewpoint, the problem with the personal attack is the overreaching scope and the hostile wording, not necessarily the critique. It is easy to be firm about laying down the rules of development without getting into the realm of "your entire code and opinion". There is absolutely nothing wrong with his later post on this in my opinion ( http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02487.html http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02487.html ) and I don't think he's any less firm about the development rules here.