Years ago tarballs were the standard way to download the kernel, in particular by those users such as distributions who need something well defined to base their work on. Times have changed. Git came finally allowing MIPS to become fully merged upstream into the kernel.org kernel, CVS faded away into obscurity and the immense growth of a kernel tarball - a .xz compressed kernel tarball is now about 90MiB, a .gz compressed kernel even 138MiB. Combined that is even 228MiB! Which means at the same time that the tarballs are melting the diskspace at exponentional speed, their usefulness has diminished. So the question is, is there still any value in continuing to generate tarballs from every -rc, every stable kernel release? Should I just stop? Is everybody happiert with a git than with tarballs? Note that this not about discontinuing ftp service such as kernel.org recently did. kernel.org is a much bigger site and has considerations with ftp which linux-mips.org doesn't have. For me continuing ftp service would be a very minor burden. Thanks, Ralf
