From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752431Ab2GZS0n (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:26:43 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:55449 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751982Ab2GZS0l (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:26:41 -0400 Message-ID: <50118BDD.7030505@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:26:37 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux IDE mailing list Subject: Re: Andre Hedrick (anhedric) has died References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/20/2012 12:39 AM, Nate Lawson wrote: > Dear Linux hackers, > > Sorry for the intrusion on this technical list. I wanted to let Andre's fellow Linux developers know that he died this past weekend. For those that don't know him, Andre was an active developer for the ATA driver a while back. > > I have known Andre for about 9 years, although I haven't seen much of him in the past year. He and I attended several retreats together in 2002 and 2003. I'd like to share a story from the first time I met him. > > I was a FreeBSD developer at the time and had done some work in the SCSI (CAM) subsystem. I met Andre at a retreat center in the Marin woods. As we ate dinner, he mentioned that he was a software developer. "So am I", I said. A very sad day. Andre taught me a lot about ATA, and could be considered one of the grandfathers of libata. http://hedrick4419.blogspot.com/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/26/andre_hedrick/?2 Rest in peace, Jeff