Thick skins

I also find Linus's behavior rarely if ever abusive, also because usually he's quite polite towards people that are trusted. (Frankly not always, but in general that is true).

But I was just now skimming the "recent patches" on LWN and found this:

> So you try to sell that qrwlock as a replacement for ticket spinlocks,
> while at the same time you omit the fact that we have an even better
> implementation (except for the last test case) already in the
> kernel. What's the point of this exercise?
>
> ...
>
> We really need proper explanations and not some guess based drivel to
> assess that.

The rest of the message contains many reasonable and insightful observations, but is it really necessary to talk about "guess based drivel" and accuse the poster of faking/withholding experimental data?

I call *this* lack of professionalism (and also the ARM example linked to in the article). I'd take a million swear words, it doesn't matter if English or Italian or Finnish, over this.