Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754170Ab1DETHN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:07:13 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog116.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.240]:37424 "EHLO na3sys009aog116.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753093Ab1DETHK (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:07:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:07:05 +0300 From: Felipe Balbi To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg KH , Kernel development list , USB list , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mourning the loss of David Brownell Message-ID: <20110405190704.GB28557@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> Reply-To: balbi@ti.com References: <20110405034819.GA7872@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 36 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/