Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754240Ab1DET4R (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:56:17 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:50546 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278Ab1DET4Q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:56:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110405190704.GB28557@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> References: <20110405034819.GA7872@kroah.com> <20110405190704.GB28557@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 12:56:14 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mourning the loss of David Brownell From: Bill Gatliff To: balbi@ti.com Cc: Alan Stern , Greg KH , Kernel development list , USB list , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2037 Lines: 51 Will the family be having a memorial service? On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Felipe Balbi 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@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at ?http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com -- 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/