A Linux kernel developer community unfortunately lost one of its long-time and productive wireless driver (WiFi) developers. Larry Finger passed away, who had contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and made over 1500 fixes.
His wife announced Larry's death on the linux-wireless mailing list.:
"I want to inform you that Larry Finger, one of your developers, passed away on June 21."
Larry Finger initially worked on the Broadcom BCM43XX driver and over the years made significant contributions to Wi-Fi driver development for Linux. Recently, his work was related to RTW88, RTW89, R8188EU, R8712, RTLWIFI, B43, and other networking drivers for Linux.
Partly due to his efforts, support for wireless hardware on Linux has significantly advanced over the past two decades... Long-time Linux users surely remember the days when they struggled with Wi-Fi support, resorting to NDISWrapper to use Windows WiFi drivers in Linux, and other headaches compared to today's largely hassle-free wireless hardware support.
Forrás: linux.org.ru
