I don't think it's necessarily a bruised ego here - I think what upset him is that the paper was published a few months ago and yet, based on this patch, the au

I don't think it's necessarily a bruised ego here - I think what upset him is that the paper was published a few months ago and yet, based on this patch, the author seems to still be attempting to submit deeply flawed patches to LKML, and complaining when people don't trust them to be innocent mistakes for some reason.