>I absolutely refuse to take any hardening patches at all that have BUG() or panic() or similar machine-killing in it. I care not one whit about the reason for them. In fact, if the reason is stated as "it makes debugging easiler", then I fart in your general direction and call your mother a hamster.

yes "this is typical Torvalds", but to me the tone suggests his personality is still stuck in the mid/early 90ies. It was perfectly ok to use insults dressed as humor in order to win arguments with the "unwashed masses" on Usenet. It was funny back then but seeing this in a middle-aged man in 2018 tells me the guy still hasn't grown up.

Also nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, but I'd expect at least some fresh jokes, because the Monty Python references were already old back then.