Quotes of the week II: in memoriam

As I have seen this tangentially mentioned already a few times publicly, 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.