This is a normal part of contributing to the kernel. You send a patch because it's often the most succinct way to convey the problem. Your expectation should be

This is a normal part of contributing to the kernel. You send a patch because it's often the most succinct way to convey the problem. Your expectation should be that they won't use it. I can think of at least three times off the top of my head [1][2][3] this "happened" to me. It honestly never even occurred to me to be upset about it... because my primary goal was to fix the bug, and I was happy to have done so. My sincere advice to OP is to delete this blog post... they will regret it in the future. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3f2f0680d116 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=28b783e47ad7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2270bc5da349 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...