This is better than his old style. If Linus doesn't put his trusted submaintainers into line, they'll think they can violate core rules of kernel maintenance ~

This is better than his old style. If Linus doesn't put his trusted submaintainers into line, they'll think they can violate core rules of kernel maintenance ~ something as bad breaking userspace. Linus was right to reply exactly the way he did for such breakage. There's nothing terrible about reprimanding someone you trusted, especially in front of everyone else. Helps to tell people to not repeat this level of mistake.