Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] treewide, bits: use ffs_val() where it is open-coded

[Kuan-Wei Chiu]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 10:23:02PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:42:56 +0800
> Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> ...
> > Since there are other gmail users on this thread (e.g., David, whom I
> > assume received it successfully given the reply), I am wondering if
> > anyone else using gmail experienced similar issues with this message?
> 
> Me 'David' ?
> I'm actually subscribed to the lists on a different email provider.
> I used to use gmail, but it bounces, spams and just plain discards
> far too many messages to reliably receive lkml and friends.
> I post from the gmail address to avoid leaking the other address to spammers.
> 
Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were receiving on gmail as well.

I actually just missed another reply from Maciej (again, nothing in
spam). It appears gmail has decided to silently drop messages from him
for some reason.

I'm a bit surprised to hear gmail described as generally unsuitable. I
have used this account for Linux and several other open source projects
for the past three years without issues until now.

Also, a quick check shows:

$ grep "gmail.com" MAINTAINERS | wc -l
534

Given that over 500 maintainers and reviewers use gmail, it implies it
is widely relied upon. I even recall Linus mentioning issues with gmail
spam filters regarding PRs in the past t (though I am not sure of the
exact association between linux-foundation.org and gmail), suggesting
that even at that level, gmail is part of the workflow.

TBH, if these emails were simply going to spam, it wouldn't be an issue
as I check that folder regularly. The problem here is that Maciej's
emails aren't even in spam.

That said, if direct emails continue to vanish like this, I may indeed
have to start looking for an alternative. (sigh...)

Regards,
Kuan-Wei