Yeah, The Register can often be witty and irreverent, and I wouldn't complain about that, but that kind of wit only works if there's an actual point behind it. Jumping on the apparently popular bandwagon of squeezing out "drama" from the Linux kernel mailing list isn't adding anything of value.

It also seems a bit ignorant to call the submission "half-baked" just because it needed to be worked on and because someone pointed that out (also) in a slightly irreverent way.

All of those points you bring up about the feedback they got seem like just business as usual for a larger merge of code to a carefully developed FOSS project.