Le 15/05/17 à 17:42, Linus Torvalds via RT a écrit : > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> 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
