Slashdot reader unixbhaskar shared this report from Phoronix:
Larry Finger who has contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and has seen more than 1,500 kernel patches upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel has sadly passed away. His wife shared the news of Larry Finger’s passing this weekend on the linux-wireless mailing list in a brief statement.
Reactions are being shared around the internet. LWN writes:
The LWN Kernel Source Database shows that Finger contributed to 94 releases in the (Git era) kernel history, starting with 2.6.16 — 1,464 commits in total. He will be missed… In part to his contributions, the Linux wireless hardware support has come a long way over the past two decades.
Larry was a frequent contributor to the Linux Wireless and Linux Kernel mailing lists. (Here’s a 2006 discussion he had about Git with Linus Torvalds.) Larry also answered 54 Linux questions on Quora, and in 2005 wrote three articles for Linux Journal. And Larry’s GitHub profile shows 122 contributions to open source projects just in 2024.In Reddit’s Linux forum, one commenter wrote, “He was 84 years old and was still writing code. What a legend. May he rest in peace.”
