Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel hacker. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the PCI, USB, I²C, driver core and the sysfs kernel subsystems, along with contributing to the kobject, kref and debugfs code. He is also the maintainer of the linux-hotplug and udev projects. Additionally, he maintains the Gentoo Linux packages for these programs, and helps with the kernel package. He works for SuSE Labs.

He is a co-author of "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition"[1] and "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell"[2], and a contributing editor for Linux Journal. He also contributes articles to LWN, the news computing site.

Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks[3] [4] and tutorials[5] [6]. Recently, he released a CD image of material to get a programmer started on Linux device driver development [7].

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  1. ^ O'reilly: Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition
  2. ^ O'reilly: Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
  3. ^ Linux Symposium: Keynote by Greg Kroah-Hartman, 3 myths, 2 lies, and 5 truths about Linux kernel development
  4. ^ O'reilly Net: Current State of the Linux Kernel
  5. ^ O'reilly Net: Write A Real, Working Linux Driver
  6. ^ Linux Symposium: Write a real, working Linux driver tutorial
  7. ^ Kernel.org: Linux DDK

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