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Message-ID: <50118BDD.7030505@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:26:37 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To: Nate Lawson <nate@...t.org>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Andre Hedrick (anhedric) has died
On 07/20/2012 12:39 AM, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 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.
A very sad day. Andre taught me a lot about ATA, and could be
considered one of the grandfathers of libata.
http://hedrick4419.blogspot.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/26/andre_hedrick/?2
Rest in peace,
Jeff
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