Again as I said, maybe "Reported-By" was not the most correct tag, but it still attributes some form of credit to the newbie. I just think that's too much woke culture and self entitlement from the newbie. You just have to work harder and up your skills to match the maintainer's standards before you can be called a kernel hacker. One or two patches, imho, is not enough to be called a kernel hacker, especially when it's only about fixig a bug. I fixed many similar obscure bugs. Writing a precise algorithm for Automatic NUMA balancing is a true kernel challenge for which one deserves to be called a kernel hacker.

When I started contributing to the kernel, it was super painful and I failed multiple times. I got super harsh comments (someone called me "retard. It was fun, I laughed, eventually part of my work gor merged) but I always respected the maintainers and I was eager to better myself and improve my analytical and development skills with an open mind to be as sharp as the senior hackers. I always looked up to them and never thought in the same way the newbie did when my patches got re-written or dismissed. I just considered myself "not good enough" and I felt "I had to work harder and smarter".