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    SubjectRe: mourning the loss of David Brownell
    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.

    Alan Stern

    PS: A photo of David taken at the 2008 Linux Kernel Summit is available
    here:

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2949819475_98cbfc48b7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/13825348%40N03/sets/72157608741347102/detail/&usg=__HjzUpixk_ITqzSnIhvUuWqdjQ_c=&h=500&w=333&sz=70&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=pixlWzZ4wUo1RM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=114&ei=w1mbTdXsCoO6sAOHp-j9Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddavid%2Bbrownell%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D712%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso0%2C89&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=258&vpy=263&dur=7360&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=85&ty=295&oei=w1mbTdXsCoO6sAOHp-j9Aw&page=1&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0&biw=1024&bih=712



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