Source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/18/153

Apparently they’ve been accused of submitting small patches that individually don’t contain much useful code in order to inflate their contribution figures and other stuff like submitting low quality code? According to the thread on /r/Linux. I feel like I’m not getting the full story here, or even if this was a Huawei corporate decision or just a bunch of Huawei workers doing this individually. From the other non-explanation comments, I do get the suspicion that /r/Linux is pretty biased against Huawei though. I don’t really keep up with the politics of the Linux kernel so I’m not familiar with the Huawei situation, anyone know more about this?

  • dinomug
    1•3 years ago

    It’s strange, actually they are one of top contributors to the kernel Guess Who Contributed the Most to Linux Kernel 5.10 Development? It’s Huawei (and Intel). Even if you take KPI metrics, it is probable that most of the companies on the list are doing somewhat KPI grabbing behavior. Why online Huawei receives this red flag?

    But the email address makes me cautious, “huawei.com”. The last time we got some similar patches from the same company, doing something harmless “cleanup”. But those “fixes” are also useless. […] It’s OK for first-time/student developers to submit such patches, and I really hope such patches would make them become a long term contributor. In fact, I started my kernel contribution exactly by doing such “cleanups”. […] But what you guys are doing is really KPI grabbing, I have already see several maintainers arguing with you on such “cleanups”, and you’re always defending yourself to try to get those patches merged.

    You’re sending the patch representing your company, by doin

    These parts makes a lot of noise for me