davem

Posted Jan 7, 2025 22:11 UTC (Tue) by npws (subscriber, #168248)
Parent article: Kicinski: netdev in 2024

I'm wondering, what happened to the previous networking maintainer, davem? Haven't seen anything from him in a long time.

davem

Posted Jan 7, 2025 22:41 UTC (Tue) by dankamongmen (subscriber, #35141) [Link]

i'm still wondering whether Alexey Kuznetsov eventually fell to the evil hand of the bigendian mafia.

though this comment no longer seems to be present in ip_fragment.c, sad:

/* I see, I see evil hand of bigendian mafia. On Intel all the packets hit
* one hash bucket with this hash function. 8)
*/

davem

Posted Jan 7, 2025 22:50 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (3 responses)

If you look at the page for Dave in KSDB, you'll see that he is still signing off and merging patches. It has been a while, though, since he was a more active part of the development community. He is definitely missed.

davem

Posted Jan 8, 2025 0:59 UTC (Wed) by tbm (subscriber, #7049) [Link] (2 responses)

That link is broken for me.

davem

Posted Jan 8, 2025 1:00 UTC (Wed) by tbm (subscriber, #7049) [Link]

Oh, maybe a temporary problem. https://lwn.net/ksdb/ gives "We are currently unable to connect to the KSDB server".

KSDB link

Posted Jan 8, 2025 1:40 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

It's working again...I managed to break things with a totally unrelated update, somehow...

davem

Posted Jan 8, 2025 13:51 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

https://x.com/davem_dokebi/status/1314822827879665664