Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Saying goodbye to David Brownell

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Jun 05 2011 - 06:35:26 EST


On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:12:03 -0600
Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ?
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