linux-kernel - Re: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #40777] Re: Linux 4.12-rc1 (file locations)

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 11:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:     Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT 
        <kernel-helpdesk@...linuxfoundation.org>
cc:     rdunlap@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #40777] Re: Linux 4.12-rc1 (file
 locations)

On Mon, 15 May 2017, Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT wrote:
> On 2017-05-15 14:34:56, francoisvalenduc@...il.com wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Firefox will request a gzip version of the patch, download it and then ungzip 
> it for you and display it in the browser. If you'd rather not display 
> that, please use a commandline tool like wget or curl to get the patch.

Yeah, same here: clicking on 4.12-rc2/patch on the kernel.org main 
page makes Firefox 53 freeze for a few minutes, and then display (!) the 
text file (85 MB!) in full. Wow.

> We are trying to identify who are the people who still need to download
> patches as opposed to using git directly, and what their use-case 

I never use the links on the kernel.org main page to download patches, but 
still: can those be changed to say ".gz" or something, so that $browser 
won't _display_ it by default but _download_ it instead?

Thanks,
Christian.
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