[Editor's note: this comment was originally attached to this article [1]. I have moved it to the correct forum.]

Kerneltrap's "articles" have really become worse and worse over the years, and this one is a perfect example of the daily flood of worthless drivel that passes for an "article" these days.

What's the story here? Somebody posted some patches to lkml - big deal. Was there a discussion? No, none at all, at least not according to Kerneltrap's own mailing list archives (yay, another lkml archive! There just weren't enough before). So really, what's the story?

Not that the "article" would likely have been better if there had been a discussion, of course: Kerneltrap unfortunately seems to have degraded from the insightful, informative, interesting and enlightening site it once was where discussions were summed up by an intelligent and knowledgeable writer to one that merely plucks some quotes from an email thread without adding anything and then repeats the entire thread (or parts of it), often not even bothering to get the formatting right or to remove patches etc. that most people won't care about (and those who will will neither need nor use Kerneltrap to look at them).

But again, that's assuming that there even IS a discussion to be copied and pasted, which - as noted above - isn't even true anymore in many cases.

I remember the "old" Kerneltrap, myself. I started reading the site when it was still very new, and even contributed to it a bit, "back in the day", and I really wish that site still existed. But it doesn't - it's been replaced with a dumbed-down, uninformative, irrelevant slop-job that only seems to be intended to generate as many page impressions as possible. In the past, Kerneltrap cared about its readers; it existed to provide kernel-related news, insights and backgrounds on a level above that of Slashdot and similar sites. These days, readers are a product being lured in by hastily posted non-stories and sold to the advertising industry, and even Slashdot provides more information, more insights, more points of interest.

For shame.

I'm sorry, but you're losing me as a reader. For a long time, I've been thinking "that's ALL?" every single time I read an "article" on Kerneltrap; I'll give you the benefit of a grace period since I still somehow hope that the site might become interesting again (which, one might add, would ultimately be the better business model, too: Kerneltrap's unique selling point, if you will), but if it doesn't change soon, I'll leave.

In the meantime, I'll say "thanks a lot for the old site", and "good riddance to the new site".

Sorry for the rant, but I just had to say that.