Blasting over 1200 emails to a mailing list with no heads-up appears quite tone-deaf, to put it mildly even if you presume good intentions.
Edit: The impact could be shown in a single email with a diffstat, for example. Complaining about a lack of feedback for such a thing sounds more like complaining about failing to draw others in to a bikeshedding competition.
> The impact could be shown in a single email with a diffstat, for example.
True, and I agree, but not the way stuff is usually done on LKML, thus probably not considered.
In this special case of a huge number of patches it might have been a good idea to present an RFC diffstat first, yes. Actually, I wish github had a .diffstat extension for pull requests, because often that's the first thing I care about before I know if I want to delve into a random big patch.
Edit: The impact could be shown in a single email with a diffstat, for example. Complaining about a lack of feedback for such a thing sounds more like complaining about failing to draw others in to a bikeshedding competition.