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

[Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT]

On 2017-05-15 14:34:56, francoisvalenduc@xxxxxxxxx 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.

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 scenario is.

Regards,
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Konstantin Ryabitsev
Senior Systems Administrator
Linux Foundation Collab Projects
MontrÃal, QuÃbec