From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754477AbdEXSnB (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2017 14:43:01 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.14]:34650 "EHLO smtp2.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754461AbdEXSm4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2017 14:42:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [Kernel.org Helpdesk #40777] Re: Linux 4.12-rc1 (file locations) From: "Christian Kujau 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: lists@nerdbynature.de 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: Wed, 24 May 2017 14:42:55 -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 Mon, 15 May 2017, Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT wrote: > On 2017-05-15 14:34:56, francoisvalenduc@gmail.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. -- BOFH excuse #435: Internet shut down due to maintenance