Remembering Finger, 84, who learned as he went and left his mark on many.

Denise Finger, wife of the deceased, wrote to the Linux Wireless list on Friday evening:

This is to notify you that Larry Finger, one of your developers, passed away on June 21st.

Broadcom provided no code for its gear, so Finger helped reverse-engineer the necessary specs by manually dumping and reading hardware registers. Along with Broadcom drivers, Finger also provided Realtek drivers. Many commenters across blogs and message boards are noting that their systems are still using pieces of Finger’s code today.

  • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Wonderful story and what an impact his efforts have made.

    Great example of the IT mantra “When you do your job right the user’s won’t know you’ve done anything at all”.