From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Balbi Subject: Re: mourning the loss of David Brownell Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:07:05 +0300 Message-ID: <20110405190704.GB28557@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> References: <20110405034819.GA7872@kroah.com> Reply-To: balbi@ti.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Greg KH , Kernel development list , USB list , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-spi.vger.kernel.org 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