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 is possible that KPI grabbing is happening here.
It is also the case, however, that a bunch of anti-China conspiracists exist inside open source community, solely because of their subconscious brainwashing into the notion that USA is the one responsible for the existence of libre open source culture, and important figures like RMS and Torvalds also are from USA, and Silicon Valley also being a part of this. This culture existing because of US and EU is absolutely BS to the core.
This politics also goes deep into non Western hegemonic countries being poor and having citizens unable to buy a computer and pursue computer science careers the way Western kids comfortably are able to. This stuff will change when the hegemonic balance shifts to all over the world instead of a concentrated pocket of world’s 12% citizens, currently. It will take a couple or so decades, as China’s rise by 2030 triggers a chain reaction across the world to compete with USA.