Sorry this happened to you. I'm not maintainer and hadn't been around 15 years ago, but I think these days it would be much harder to sneak in some feature in u

Sorry this happened to you. I'm not maintainer and hadn't been around 15 years ago, but I think these days it would be much harder to sneak in some feature in unreadable code piece with initial driver submission. The whole driver would probably be NACKed. Don't know if it makes netdev more or less confrontational from you point of view though :)