Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. As of April 2013, he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koch), and TTY layer. He also created linux-hotplug, the udev project, and the Linux Driver Project. He worked for Novell in the SUSE Labs division and, as of 1 February 2012, works at the Linux Foundation.
Biography
Kroah-Hartman is a co-author of Linux Device Drivers (3rd Edition) and author of Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, 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 and tutorials. In 2006, he released a CD image of material to introduce a programmer to working on Linux device driver development.
He also initiated the development of openSUSE Tumbleweed, the rolling release model edition of openSUSE.
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)
