How to piss off a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer

“There’s nothing like waking up and receiving in your inbox, a
few scant hours after the merge window has opened up again, a plea
for why you haven’t already reviewed and applied all 117+ patches
that the author sent to you a few weeks ago, back when they well
knew you could not apply them due to the merge window being
closed.

Oh, and to top it all off, as the message was sent in HTML
format, it didn’t hit the mailing lists, I was the only one who
received it. Because of that, I figured it was better if I just
ignored it as well, just like the vger.kernel.org filters did.

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