His overall point was a bewilderment at the incompetent and non-sensical patches that were being given as "fixes" in this issue. Linus was pointing out a partic

His overall point was a bewilderment at the incompetent and non-sensical patches that were being given as "fixes" in this issue. Linus was pointing out a particular instance of that, but this news and other behaviour from Intel seems to indicate this is part of an endemic, cultural, administrative issue inside the company.