From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Gatliff Subject: Re: mourning the loss of David Brownell Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 12:56:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20110405034819.GA7872@kroah.com> <20110405190704.GB28557@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 To: balbi@ti.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110405190704.GB28557@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-spi.vger.kernel.org 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 Brownel= l >> > recently and he will be greatly missed. >> >> David made contributions to a large number of areas in the Linux >> kernel. =A0Even a quick look through MAINTAINERS will show that he w= orked >> on USB controllers (OHCI, EHCI, OMAP and others), USB gadgets, USB >> networking, and SPI. =A0He was influential in the core USB design (t= he >> HCD "glue" layer and the scatter-gather library) and the development= of >> Power Management (system sleep and the USB PM implementation). =A0Hi= s >> 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 ent= ry >> to USB core development. =A0And he was the first person I met at the >> first Linux conference I attended. =A0I 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 f= rom > 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-kerne= l" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at =A0http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > --=20 Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com