Here's another interpretation based on the facts we know today:
Greg was assuming these were patches coming from some new "hypocrite patch" project at UMN and "AGAIN" refers to the previous incident in Aug2020 regarding the paper. I don't think the student was ignoring anything. Greg categorically dismissed legitimate contributions to the kernel because of his rash perception that UMN was up to no good AGAIN. So that's why he referenced the previous event and said AGAIN.
In other words: Greg and all the other kernel maintainers were made unwilling participants in a research project (the "hypocrite patches") and then were made unwilling participants in another research project with the same advisor (the static analyzer which was of questionable utility).
So - no more free research support for the University of Minnesota. That's fair because the reviewers did not choose to spend time on the University of Minnesota's research output.
Greg was assuming these were patches coming from some new "hypocrite patch" project at UMN and "AGAIN" refers to the previous incident in Aug2020 regarding the paper. I don't think the student was ignoring anything. Greg categorically dismissed legitimate contributions to the kernel because of his rash perception that UMN was up to no good AGAIN. So that's why he referenced the previous event and said AGAIN.
In reality, this isn't some conspiracy where UMN was attempting to add hypocrite patches for a 2nd time. Greg was dead wrong in that regard. You need to read: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ekjlu/papers/full-disclosure.....