Linux kernel maintainers approve Huawei developers to brush KPIs

Recently, an email named "Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches (AKA, don't be a KPI jerk)" appeared on the Linux mailing list. Linux kernel maintainer Qu Wenruo pointed out in the email that the patches submitted by Huawei developers are suspected of brushing KPIs.

attracted a lot of attention and is currently ranked first in the Linux mailing list, higher than Linus Torvalds' email discussing vaccine issues.

Qu Wenruo found that the multiple patches submitted by developers with the suffix "@huawei.com" were just for "cleaning up misinformation" or "fixing spelling errors". These patches usually come from novice developers. Qu believes that submitting such useless patches multiple times is a company's KPI's behavior.

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According to the Linux kernel 5.10 development statistics released in December 2020, the number of patches submitted by Huawei to Linux Kernel 5.10 ranked first, and the number of modified code lines ranked second, second only to Intel.

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