What the maintainer actually said was [0]: > Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the

What the maintainer actually said was [0]: > Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you? Which to me, at least, reads very differently than claiming the author's patch is worse. [0] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-June/244387.html https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-June/24... (Credit to nolist_policy for pointing this out upthread.)