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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:30:31 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: Jobi Ariyamannil <Jobi.Ariyamannil@lsi.com>
Cc: Brian Stark <brian.stark@lsi.com>, Nelson Nahum <Nelson.Nahum@lsi.com>
Subject: feedback on Rendell Fong
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Hi Jobi,

Just dropping you a note about Rendell Fong since you're his manager
these days.

Rendell is the most productive and important developer on the Tuxstor
project right now.  He is a consistent producer who needs far fewer
management cycles than his coworkers.  He has delivered several big and
important and extremely technical pieces in his time on the project,
which is the shortest of anyone contributing at this point.  I highly
recommend him for promotion to Principal Engineer position which he has
more than earned.

He is currently entrusted with the development work of the long-pole
task of the project, the virtual server implementation work.

Short list of some of his larger contributions:

KGDB source debugging - not present in a working form in the kernel in
even binary mode when he started, never mind source mode.  This
accomplishment is exceptional and will be contributed back to the
community giving LSI great PR and cred. there.

Compile warnings - the project was saddled with thousands of compiler
warnings caused by incorrect coding methods which was allowed by the
previous, 10 year old, compiler.  He has helped fix hundreds and
hundreds of them without ever being asked.

Added kernel crash dump and core file support for Linux on the TXRX, as
well as for Linux on the SSC.  This is a big win for the project and
the dev tree as well.

Fixed a prom bug where the Linux kernel couldn't be loaded from the
secondary CF.  Also fixed memory leak in prom code.

Rendell has only been on the project since March and knew very little
about the Linux kernel at that time.

Thanks,

a
