Collecting condolences for the family of David Brownell

[Posted April 8, 2011 by corbet]

As many LWN readers will have heard, long-time kernel developer David Brownell recently passed away. His contributions to the code are many, but it is clear that they were outweighed by his contributions to the community. He will be much missed.

A collection point has been set up for condolences to be passed on to David's family. People outside of our community are often not fully aware of the role a loved one plays in the community; this is a chance to let David's family know more about how many lives he touched and how valuable his work was. If you would like to share your memories of David, they may be sent to dbrownell-condolences@kernel.org; from there, they will be passed on to his family.

Collecting condolences for the family of David Brownell

Posted Apr 11, 2011 23:44 UTC (Mon) by dnl (subscriber, #13782) [Link]

I'd be very happy to make a contribution to honor him. Does he leave a family? Did he have a favored charity?

Collecting condolences for the family of David Brownell

Posted Apr 12, 2011 18:16 UTC (Tue) by zeke123 (guest, #60445) [Link] (2 responses)

People outside of our community are often not fully aware of the role a loved one plays in the community; this is a chance to let David's family know more about how many lives he touched and how valuable his work was
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Im not a kernel guy and honestly never heard of him but could someone maybe explain what are some of the things he's worked on?

I think it would be honouring his memory if others in the free software communities learned about his work.

http://www.davidbrownell.com/ gives a little bit.

Collecting condolences for the family of David Brownell

Posted Apr 14, 2011 3:06 UTC (Thu) by cjb (guest, #40354) [Link] (1 responses)

> http://www.davidbrownell.com/ gives a little bit.

Probably a different person, just going by the content.

Collecting condolences for the family of David Brownell

Posted Apr 14, 2011 5:41 UTC (Thu) by hidave (subscriber, #18406) [Link]

I doubt as well. If you want to know his work in linux kernel you can search kernel git log as following:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%...