From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965285AbdEOSe7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2017 14:34:59 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.14]:50178 "EHLO smtp2.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964990AbdEOSe5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2017 14:34:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #40777] [linuxfoundation.org #40777] Re: Linux 4.12-rc1 (file locations) From: "=?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lzIFZhbGVuZHVj?= via RT" Reply-To: kernel-helpdesk@rt.linuxfoundation.org In-Reply-To: References: <7d545d53-9d9d-02f7-f76d-04033669ef64@infradead.org> Message-ID: X-RT-Loop-Prevention: linuxfoundation.org X-RT-Ticket: linuxfoundation.org #40777 X-Managed-BY: RT 4.4.0 (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) X-RT-Originator: francoisvalenduc@gmail.com 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: Mon, 15 May 2017 14:34:56 -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 Le 15/05/17 à 17:42, Linus Torvalds via RT a écrit : > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> >> Can the generated files please be put in the same places that (most or >> all) previous releases have used? > > I will leave this to Konstantin.. There may well be practical reasons > for the movement. > >> Oh, and the patch file (on https://kernel.org) is a text file, not a >> zipped file (as in previous releases). > > Well, if you use a browser, the normal browser compression (behind > your back) should be in effect. So you won't actually be wasting the > bandwidth. > > If you use wget, you have to manually ask for it. Quoting Konstantin > from an earlier discussion: > >> Yes, this is implemented on the http protocol level -- but you have to >> tell wget to request it: >> >> wget -O test.patch.gz \ >> --header="accept-encoding: gzip" \ >> https://git.kernel.org/... >> >> Browsers do the requesting and ungzipping automatically, but not cmdline >> tools. > > so the capability is there, it's just not done as several individual > files any more. > > Linus > > It doesn't work with Firefox-53.0. After quite a long time while firefox uses 100% of CPU, I finally get a text file and not a gzip file of the patch for 4.12-rc1. It was almost instantaneous previously. I don't see this as a progress. Best regards, François Valenduc