Torvalds rails at Linux developer: 'I'm f*cking tired of your code'

The core of the issue is that systemd looks at kernel boot command line and if it sees "debug" there, it starts logging so much diagnostics, it floods the system and prevents it from completing the boot.

Someone then opened a bug [0] with systemd devs and the ticket was closed by this Kay person in two hours with "not a bug". In a exchange that followed Kay said "debug" is a generic term, there's nothing to fix, ignoring the fact that his treatment of "debug" was breaking existing systems that admins with booting with kernel debug On. This is a major if not the major f#ckup in Linus world, who is really big on not breaking backward compatibility, ever. Now multiply it on Kay's not-my-problem attitude and you can guess Linus reaction without reading his lkml post.

[0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935

In other news, we 're still on Earth.

Summary: Linus is unhappy with Kay because systemd can flood the kernel with so many messages that the system will fail to boot.

It seems to me that it would be best to ensure the kernel cannot be overwhelmed and shutdown by anything a user space process does. Linus language may not be up to American sensitivity standards but then again Linus is not an American.

Start of original discussion thread:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01327.html

Any link to the actual discussion itself?