Re: mourning the loss of David Brownell

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>]

Will the family be having a memorial service?

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> 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.
>
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