On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:10:53PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Greg KH wrote: >> >> > As I have seen this tangentally mentioned already a few times >> > publically, I figured it warranted it's own announcement now. >> > >> > Linux has lost a great developer with the passing of David Brownell >> > recently and he will be greatly missed. >> >> David made contributions to a large number of areas in the Linux >> kernel. Even a quick look through MAINTAINERS will show that he worked >> on USB controllers (OHCI, EHCI, OMAP and others), USB gadgets, USB >> networking, and SPI. He was influential in the core USB design (the >> HCD "glue" layer and the scatter-gather library) and the development of >> Power Management (system sleep and the USB PM implementation). His >> designs were elegant and his code was always a pleasure to read. >> >> He also was a big help to me personally, assisting in my initial entry >> to USB core development. And he was the first person I met at the >> first Linux conference I attended. I too will miss him. > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:17:20AM -0700, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> Guys: >> >> >> David Brownell unknowingly inspired me to get involved in Linux as a >> profession. I saw him as an individual working successfully on Free >> and Open Software, and have made an effort to emulate his success for >> over a decade now. >> >> I deeply regret never taking the time to meet and thank him in person. > > A reminder that we all are mortal. Since David I can't thank David > either, I'd like to take a moment to thank Greg, Alan, and Oliver. > David, Greg, Alan, and Oliver were really great at putting up with my > newbie questions when I was first working on usbfs2, and I really > appreciate all the help, support, and feedback they've given me over the > years. Thank you! > Me too. David and the other developers you mentioned here helped me a lot. So sad, he is so young. Regards Jidong -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
