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?

  • forgotmylastusername
    9·
    3 years ago

    I saw on /g/ some time ago a post calling out behavior like the accusations here. Someone was spamming the kernel with trivial fixes to fluff their CV. They also won some award or something. Kinda vague description but that’s all I can remember.

    Also yeah, /r/linux harbors a lot of racist. A few idiots knee jerk reacted to the freenode drama with “china bad” with out realizing the dude who took it over is Korean descent. That subreddit has auto removal triggered on X number of user reports. So the sinophobes report spam posts related to China or Chinese people in order to get them auto removed.

    I forgot what post what the last post I noticed it happen on but it was disappointing enough that I took that sub off my regular browsing list.

  • dinomug
    9·
    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 likely 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”.

    It makes a lot of noise for me.

    You’re sending the patch representing your company, by doing this you’re really just damaging the already broken reputation.

    What are you talking about? What if those patches were actually made by company interns?

    broken reputation? Huawei is platinum member.

    I have followed the rest of the thread and it seems that the problem is that they must to collaborate in more difficult areas, which is fine. The problem I see here is that the impact of all the anti-China propaganda and campaigning is clearly visible. Note that it is the only Chinese/non-Western company on the list, one of the youngest and is at the top. The red country 🇨🇳 is not just an economic giant 😎 .

    • anescient
      2·
      3 years ago

      Does anybody know what Intel is focusing on? They dominate by lines-changed.

      • blank_sl8
        1·
        3 years ago

        I’m not sure what the full extent is, but they certainly have to maintain their graphics drivers.

  • Helix
    5·
    3 years ago

    Well if they’re contributing good code, there’s nothing wrong with small patches. KPIs are meaningless anyway. Everyone has to start somewhere. Maybe call out individuals or take action if it really wastes time.

    If it’s really only the output of checkpatch as stated on https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/26/linux_kernel_contributor_from_huawei/, someone should take their time and read its output to merge it all at once.

    Clean code is good code…

    • Helix
      72·
      3 years ago

      This is about work culture at Huawei, not China per se. China is not Huawei and Steve Bannon certainly doesn’t have any power over the contributors mentioned in that thread. Stop these unfounded conspiracy theories and start providing proof.

        • Helix
          23·
          3 years ago

          Are you so ignorant of the hegemonic war between USA and China, that you purposely ignore the vile statements […]

          No, I also don’t like the stupid “trade war” politics and policies the US of A have imposed upon China. I don’t like the propaganda machine the US has going on. OTOH, you assume Qu Wenruo is brainwashed by Steve Bannon. You don’t even realise how ridiculous that sounds. If I was Wenruo reading your post, I’d ask you if you’re an idiot thinking that. This is about patches to the Linux Kernel, which you seem to know nothing about. I just realised your username and sighed because I wasted my time again.

            • Helix
              21·
              3 years ago

              Go take a look at the comments today on reddit r/linux on the new RISC-V Xiangshan CPU news. 60-70% of the comments will tell you something. And it seems to be in line with the attitude towards Huawei for some random reason.

              The LKML is not reddit and Wenruo is a long time Kernel contributor. Whataboutism gets you nowhere.