linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev updates for v5.17-rc1

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Message-ID: <07123931-39d8-42b9-6d2f-b9fde89675bf@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:28:52 +0100
From:   Helge Deller <deller@....de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev updates for v5.17-rc1

On 1/17/22 05:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 9:32 PM Helge Deller <deller@....de> wrote:
>>
>> This pull request contains only one single initial patch which adds
>> myself to the MAINTAINERS file for the FRAMBUFFER LAYER.
>
> I'll pull this

Thanks!

> (as my test builds for other things complete), but this
> is just a note to say that this pull request email was marked as spam
> for me, with gmail saying something along the lines of "lots of emails
> from gmx.de have been marked as spam"

GMX is the biggest (free-) email provider in Germany. I'm sure their
mailboxes get heavily attacked by spammers, and others may try to use them
for spamming.

> I see nothing odd in the email itself, and it has proper SPF and DKIM,
> but it's possible that you end up sharing a subnet (or an ISP) with
> spammers...

No, I'm on a dial-up DSL line and send/get my mails via smtp/imap over the official
GMX mail servers. So, it's strange that gmail suddenly thinks it's spam.

> Or maybe it was a random one-off. We'll see. I check spam filters
> enough that I _usually_ tend to catch these things.

Great.
If it happens again I can switch to my kernel.org account instead...

Helge