Sharp: Closing a door

The "code of conflict" is simply the wrong polarity of burden compared to a "code of conduct". You can point someone who is being abusive to a code of conduct and say "please stop". Otherwise, you're expressly telling the recipient of abusive behavior "put up with it until it rises to the point of injury that you feel you need to involve a disinterested third party to mediate". I submit no one will ever meet that threshold before simply moving on to another project.

I'm less concerned with long standing kernel developers being abusive to each other compared to the observers of those interactions. My anecdotal experience is that these observers of violence on LKML go on to emulate it thinking "that's how you command respect and get your way". They completely miss the point that the respect and "getting your way" comes from a proven track record of being almost always correct from a technical perspective.