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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?
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?
It makes a lot of noise for me.
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 😎 .
Does anybody know what Intel is focusing on? They dominate by lines-changed.
I'm not sure what the full extent is, but they certainly have to maintain their graphics drivers.