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Linux Kernel maintainer to Huawei: Don't waste maintainers time with "cleanup" patches that bringing little value. Anyone know more about this? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 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.