From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: joe@perches.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Saying goodbye to David Brownell
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:37:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110605113702.32ed0707@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110605071058.25982.76948.stgit@ponder>
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:12:03 -0600
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> We had to say goodbye when David passed away recently. David had a
> huge impact on our community, both personally in the lives of the
> people he worked with, and technically in the design and maintenance
> of several subsystems. He is greatly missed.
>
> He also leaves behind a number of much loved subsystems now orphaned.
> This patch updates the MAINTAINERS file for the areas that David was
> responsible for. While it removes Davids name from the MAINTAINERS
> file, it by no mean should be seen as forgetting David's involvement
> or the work he's accomplished. Indeed, his name remains prominent
> in the changelog and copyright notices of many files in the kernel.
Could always move him into CREDITS instead ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-05 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-05 7:12 Grant Likely
2011-06-05 7:30 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-05 7:34 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-05 14:38 ` Harry Wei
2011-06-05 10:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-06-05 11:22 ` Wanlong Gao
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