David Stephen Miller (born November 26, 1974) is an Americansoftware developer working on theLinux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of the networking subsystem[1][2] and individual networking drivers,[3] theSPARC implementation,[4][5] and theIDE subsystem.[6] With other people, he co-maintains the crypto API,[7]KProbes,[8]IPsec,[9] and is also involved in other development work.
As of January 2022, Miller is #1 in "non-author signoff"patches,[11] which are Linux kernel modifications reviewed by the subsystem maintainer who ultimately applies them. He's been in the top gatekeepers for years since kernel 2.6.22 in 2007.[12]
Miller is one of the maintainers of the LinuxTCP/IP stack[1] and has been key in improving its performance in high load environments.[20] He also wrote and/or contributed to numerousnetwork card drivers in the Linux kernel.[21][22]
^abDavid S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP & Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1997)."The SPARC Port of Linux".Usenix Proceedings.USENIX Association. Retrieved2010-04-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase Speakers". TheAtlanta Linux Showcase. 1998-10-24. Archived fromthe original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved2010-04-19.David S. Miller is an engineer at Cobalt Networks, he's been a member of the Linux kernel developer team for nearly 5 years now, and has ported it to various Sparc and MIPS platforms. He is also the current primary maintainer of the IP networking layer in the kernel and an active contributor to the EGCS compiler project.
