One of the many finer threads that help connect and prosper the open source community if avid participation/co-operation from developers across the globe working together with the single important goal of improving upon the Linux kernel. Active partaking of people from all over the world means the project is alive and kicking at all times. However, not everyone is actually trying to help here, as recent happenings suggest. Trolls exist even in the Linux society, only that none managed to make such a big impression as Nick Krause.
Linux kernel maintainers are quite the busy lot, however, Krause’s recent tricks have led to significant bouts of frustration/irritation even among the best of them. Seems like Krause is on a mission of sorts here as he continuously tries to get broken patches past the maintainers, only that his goals are not very clear at the moment. Many developers believe the quite obvious theory of Krause being a troll in search of damaging the Linux kernel. While that might be a distant dream for him (at least for now), Krause has managed to irk quite a lot of people, slowing down the whole development process by keeping devs on their toes trying to fix broken patches introduced by him.
It must be noted that Krause boasts of no prior kernel development experience whatsoever. The way in which he blatantly ignores all advice and literally ‘harasses’ maintainers with bad code is quite absurd and meaningless for someone who doesn’t seem to show much ambition in life. Although he must clearly not be seen as some newbie trying to get some attention either, advise some devs. The most recent of his antics suggest that Krause tried to mess with ext4, btrfs, scsi, and usb subsystems.
