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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Turning off the incremental diff robot
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 22:04:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105312204.02722.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110531194358.GA4424@elf.ucw.cz>

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:43:59 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm
> > seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on
> > kernel.org.  It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore,
> > with git and all.

Are you talking about just ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/*/incr/
or also about ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-* and
Changelog-*?

I can see reasons to keep the latter, but not necessarily the former.

> > Do anyone actually use these anymore?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Usecase one is zaurus, which is just not powerful enough for git, and
> usecase two are companies that only work with releases... ketchup is
> very useful for both.

For usecase one, is it possible to replace the download links with
links into http://git.kernel.org/ ?

For usecase two, why wouldn't those be able to just download the entire
release tarball? At least, I would expect that there is no need for
the small incremental patches in their case, only for the full
inter-release patches.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30 19:03 Turning off the incremental diff robot H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-30 19:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-30 20:10   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 20:49   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-31 12:38     ` Heiko Carstens
2011-05-31 12:49       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-01  6:22     ` Pavel Machek
2011-05-31 19:43 ` [kernel.org users] " Pavel Machek
2011-05-31 20:04   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-05-31 20:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-31 20:31       ` Pavel Machek
2011-05-31 19:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-05-31 20:13   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-01  8:43   ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2011-06-01 15:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-01 13:09 ` Jean Delvare
2011-06-01 13:34   ` Alexey Dobriyan

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