Will the family be having a memorial service? On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > I guess many of us have similar experience with Dave. He also helped me > a lot when I first started doing Linux development. I learned a lot from > him and will miss him a lot. His teachings, I will always carry with me. > > Thanks Dave for all your help. Rest in Peace, my friend. > > -- > balbi > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Bill Gatliff bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
