From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261436AbVEZNiq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 09:38:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261437AbVEZNip (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 09:38:45 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:28614 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261436AbVEZNin (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 09:38:43 -0400 Subject: No full image on kernel.org home page. From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: webmaster@kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:38:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1117114714.4313.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, Just wondering why there's only patches to download from the kernel.org home page? It would be nice if you could also download the image that you needed to patch against. I know I can easily get the images by cruising down the links of either the HTML or FTP. If the full image is not there to have people use the patches more often, then it would make more sense to have a link on the main page to the image to patch against. If I have to make the effort to follow the links down to get a image, I'll just take the full image of the one I want instead of the patch. This means that the next time I get a image, I need to download the whole thing again. So having something like this: The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.11.10 (patched against 2.6.11) Having the 2.6.11.10 be a link to the patch and 2.6.11 the full bz2 image tar ball. When I get a image I would get the 2.6.11, then the patch. The next time I would only need to get the patch. Otherwise, being lazy and a procrastinator, I would follow the links and download the 2.6.11.10 tarball. (lazy since I don't need to do any patching, a procrastinator since I could have downloaded the 2.6.11 to patch against next time but just say "I'll do that later!"). Cheers, -- Steve