From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751544Ab2GTEqr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:46:47 -0400 Received: from rootlabs.com ([208.72.84.106]:60969 "EHLO mail.rootlabs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909Ab2GTEqo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:46:44 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 407 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:46:44 EDT From: Nate Lawson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: Andre Hedrick (anhedric) has died Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:39:55 -0700 Message-Id: To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. "I work on code for handling disk drives," he continued. "So do I, at least in my spare time," I replied. "I work on Linux," he said. "FreeBSD is better," I joked. He took the insult in fine fashion. "To work on disk drivers, you have to be a special kind of bastard," he said, his eyes sparkling. "Are you something of a jerk? All the good storage programmers are." We both laughed, and began recounting arguments on various mailing lists about error recovery, queuing, etc. I saw him a few times in Berkeley after that. His wife and kids were often with him. He, like all of us, was a real person, not just a personality on a mailing list. I've always thought kindly of Andre, and like many of us, he had high standards and an impatience to make things better. I have a lot of respect for people like that. I'm sorry to bring this news to you, and I'll miss him. Sincerely, Nate