From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751624AbdJOV7F (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:59:05 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.14]:45048 "EHLO smtp2.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751159AbdJOV7C (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:59:02 -0400 Subject: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #46182] [linuxfoundation.org #46182] Re: Linux 4.14-rc2 (bad patch file on kernel.org) From: "Pavel Machek via RT" Reply-To: kernel-helpdesk@rt.linuxfoundation.org In-Reply-To: <20171015065844.GA3916@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> References: <20171015065844.GA3916@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> Message-ID: X-RT-Loop-Prevention: linuxfoundation.org X-RT-Ticket: linuxfoundation.org #46182 X-Managed-BY: RT 4.4.0 (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) X-RT-Originator: pavel@ucw.cz To: rdunlap@infradead.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:59:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun 2017-09-24 20:43:45, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > > But I just tried it myself, and get the same breakage. In fact, the > > patch it downloads is exactly 50397184 bytes in size. > > Side note: instead of downloading a 50MB patch, you could probably use > the same amount of bandwidth to download and build git, and then use > that to download much smaller incremental updates. > > I'm surprised that people still even use those nasty patches and tar-balls. git needs more RAM then kernel compilation. On a small machine, you can compile kernel in few hours, but git will run out of memory. 256MB RAM is small these days. Yeah, waiting hours for kernel is not fun, but it is interesting test of the target, and you get a kernel binary as a bonus. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html