Greg Kroah-Hartman
American Linux kernel developer
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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. As of April 2013[update], he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch,[2] the staging subsystem,[2] USB,[2] driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems,[2] Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koch),[2] and TTY layer.[2] He also created linux-hotplug, the udev project, and the Linux Driver Project.[3] He worked for Novell in the SUSE Labs division and, as of 1 February 2012[update], works at the Linux Foundation.[1][4]
Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
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| Other name | Greg KH |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | Linux Foundation[1] |
| Website | www |
Biography
Kroah-Hartman is a co-author of Linux Device Drivers (3rd Edition)[5] and author of Linux Kernel in a Nutshell,[6] and used to be a contributing editor for Linux Journal. He also contributes articles to LWN.net, the Linux news site.
Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks[7][8] and tutorials.[9][10] In 2006, he released a CD image of material to introduce a programmer to working on Linux device driver development.[11]
He also initiated the development of openSUSE Tumbleweed, the rolling release model edition of openSUSE.[12][13]
Books
- Jonathan Corbet; Alessandro Rubini; Greg Kroah-Hartman (2005). Linux Device Drivers (3rd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00590-3.
- Kroah-Hartman, Greg (2006). Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0-596-10079-7.
