Let me break it down for you with all the necessary substitutions
> (idiomatic) To raise a false alarm; to constantly warn others about an imagined threat, thereby failing to get assistance when a real threat appears.
The imagined threat is the level of quality in patches. He consistently raises false alarms about the quality of patches. The false part being the absolute terms he uses about the character of the people that proposed the patches. Calling someone an infantile moron qualifies as falsehood in my book and counts as raising a false alarm. Now that he is complaining about grsecurity I'm not inclined to listen because the level of alarm he has used previously has been incommensurate with reality, as in he has said "here is a wolf" (this patch is the worst thing ever and the person that wrote it is a moron) when in reality there was no wolf (patch was actually fine and the person was not a moron). Less alarmism would have helped everyone involved get along better and make a more secure kernel. Instead I'm arguing about how comparing his alarmism to crying wolf is or isn't idiomatic. FML
> The imagined threat is the level of quality in patches.
No, it often is a real threat.
> The false part being the absolute terms he uses about the character of the people that proposed the patches.
So feel free to disregard his opinions about the characters of other people, but don't be surprised that barely anyone treats you seriously when you suggest that the above somehow invalidates his technical analyses.
> Now that he is complaining about grsecurity I'm not inclined to listen
> (idiomatic) To raise a false alarm; to constantly warn others about an imagined threat, thereby failing to get assistance when a real threat appears.
The imagined threat is the level of quality in patches. He consistently raises false alarms about the quality of patches. The false part being the absolute terms he uses about the character of the people that proposed the patches. Calling someone an infantile moron qualifies as falsehood in my book and counts as raising a false alarm. Now that he is complaining about grsecurity I'm not inclined to listen because the level of alarm he has used previously has been incommensurate with reality, as in he has said "here is a wolf" (this patch is the worst thing ever and the person that wrote it is a moron) when in reality there was no wolf (patch was actually fine and the person was not a moron). Less alarmism would have helped everyone involved get along better and make a more secure kernel. Instead I'm arguing about how comparing his alarmism to crying wolf is or isn't idiomatic. FML