LinuxCon Japan: Making kernel developers less grumpy

My feeling of distress towards people advocating mocking people in public is kind of being shadowed by your disturbing choice of example.

I would expect that any normal father would, on seeing that Bob is playing with a dangerous knife, tell him that he should help dad with that only after he grew up a bit and has more experience with dangerous tools. And if Bob is really interested in helping with knives, give him a small blunt knife to help cut soft fruit for the fruit salad.

That also sounds like a reasonable, grown up reply (aside of course of the patronising tone) to inexperienced but eager people wasting other people's time on LKML.