Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Other names GregKH
Occupation Programmer
Employers Novell
Website
http://www.kroah.com/

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel hacker. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the PCI, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems. He is also the maintainer of the linux-hotplug and created the udev projects. Additionally, he helps to maintain the Gentoo Linux packages for these programs, and helps with the kernel package. He works for Novell in the SUSE Labs division. He is currently working full time on the Linux Driver Project.[1]

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

Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks[4][5] and tutorials.[6][7] Recently, he released a CD image of material to get a programmer started on Linux device driver development.[8]

[edit] Books

[edit] References

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

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