Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
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Other names | Greg KH |
Occupation | Programmer |
Employer | Linux Foundation [1] |
Website |
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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]
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]