Wishing David Miller well

[Posted October 12, 2020 by corbet]

David Miller is the long-time maintainer of the kernel's networking subsystem. On October 10, he wrote this to his Twitter feed: "I had a stroke on Tuesday and have been recovering since please pray for me". We at LWN wish David a fast and complete recovery. (Thanks to Harald Welte for the heads-up).

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 12, 2020 14:53 UTC (Mon) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469) [Link]

I am not actively involved in Linux kernel networking anymore for about a decade now, but I always had great respect for davem back in the days while working in the netdev community. I always appreciated his down-to-earth style of running things, and the fact that despite the enormous contributions he has made to the kernel during decades (networking only being one part of it), he's never been looking for the spotlight.

We've never been particularly close, but still this news comes as a great shock to me. I feel so incredibly sorry he has to go throug that ordeal. A stroke in the mid-forties is clearly not the kind of diagnosis anyone expects.

I sincerely hope that David can recover as quickly as possible and to the furthest extent possible. My warmest thoughts to him, his family and anyone close to him. May he have all the strength he needs.

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 12, 2020 14:58 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (2 responses)

David has also been running vger.kernel.org for years until lately. I hope he recovers soon.

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 12, 2020 18:49 UTC (Mon) by arekm (guest, #4846) [Link] (1 responses)

He wasn't very helpful for vger ml users though when he was vger postmaster. With his "go away", "I don't have time", "I don't care", kind of attitude.
Great network maintainer and contributor.
Two sides of a mirror.

I hope he will be well.

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 12, 2020 23:06 UTC (Mon) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]

Come on, man*.

*person

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 12, 2020 15:33 UTC (Mon) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

My thoughts are with David and his family. Wishing him a speedy recovery!

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 12, 2020 22:56 UTC (Mon) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

Speaking as somebody who'd been there... *ouch*
Best wishes, and as few complications as possible...

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 13, 2020 7:23 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

That's decades too early for something like that to be happening to a person… hope he has a full recovery.

Wishing David Miller well

Posted Oct 16, 2020 4:51 UTC (Fri) by pothos (subscriber, #116075) [Link]

Best wishes for the recovery and for living with it afterwards!