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 names | 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]
In April 2021, Kroah-Hartman announced the decision to ban the University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux kernel and to revert all prior patches from the university after researchers intentionally inserted bugs in an unauthorised penetration test.[14][15]
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.
References
External links
- Greg Kroah-Hartman's blog
- Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linux page
- List of articles written by Greg Kroah-Hartman in Linux Journal
- List of articles written by Greg Kroah-Hartman in LWN
- Greg Kroah-Hartman's HOWTO article on Linux kernel development
- Linux Driver Project
- Video with Greg Kroah-Hartman at Hannover Industry Trade Fair, Germany, May 2008
- Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux Plumbers Keynote (video)