Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.

Torvalds' brusque attitude was perhaps most well demonstrated in a 2012 interview in which harsh yet arguably deserved invective was thrust, alongside a middle finger, at graphics giant turned AI cash-cow Nvidia.

Yet this was relatively mild compared to how he reacted to Intel's Spectre patch. His aggressive responses are known to have chased people out of kernel development, and in 2018 Torvalds issued an apology for "flippant attacks" which "have been both unprofessional and uncalled for."

The Linux dev-in-chief then took a break from active development of the kernel and came back with a desire to be a ...