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Sounds like he is saying. Huawei is doing a lot of trivial cleanups to be able to say like they are a major contributor. Basically the argument is: - trivial p
by MichaelRazum 5y ago
Sounds like he is saying. Huawei is doing a lot of trivial cleanups to be able to say like they are a major contributor. Basically the argument is:
- trivial patches are ok, if you are just doing it for practice. Like a student.
- trivial patches are not ok, if you are doing a lot of them and only for the purpose to get a higher contribution ranking (like commits per company)
- szszrk 5y agoFor me as well. This discussion plus recent 'kernel should use github or similar" articles recently makes me think about sponsors. Doesn't Kernel use sponsors approach, like Debian used to for packages? You can push anything, but you find yourself a competent maintainer who filters your work. Like puts your trivial commits in bulk ;)
- hashhar 5y agoI don't think Qu says that Huawei isn't a major contributor. See: > > My contributions to the kernel in the past have mainly been on optimizing the performance of the ARM64 SMMU driver, > > including the iova optimization, strict mode optimization, and the lazy mode optimization. Also working on the > > development of some ARM SoC drivers. > You indeed have done solid contribution to the kernel in the past, thus > better could have been done. Also: > Even without checking the git log, I can easily think of some big > contributions from your employer, like EROFS and F2FS. > Thus I don't have any doubt about that.