While I agree that these responses are rude, patches like this are the lkml equivalent of taking a dump in someones backyard... It might very well be that the submitter didn't know that, the documentation on what will be flat out rejected is not very explicit.

But a compile-time dependency on a non-gpl module should be very self-evident, and the documentation explicitly asks people to go and learn about how the GPL works...

Revealing that as Patch 21 of 21 just adds insult to injury. Wasted a lot of peoples time with that one.

The fact that the module in question is from nvidia further shows that the submitter just had no idea of the histoy and culture of the linux developer community. And that is the charitable Interpretation...

The kernel developers have to fend off stuff like that constantly, some are probably pretty jaded by now, which leads to responses like that.

It's normal human nature, most service workers who have to deal with customers have similar problems, and some develop the same kind of behaviour.

If you don't outsource thinking to other people you actually won't get reponses like this.