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    SubjectRe: No full image on kernel.org home page.
    Try the "F" link on the right.

    Brice



    Steven Rostedt a écrit :
    > 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
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