Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux kernel developer who maintains the stable kernel releases, USB and the driver core.
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- Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel developer.
- He maintains the -stable branch and subsystems including USB, the driver core, staging, sysfs and the TTY layer, and created the udev project, linux-hotplug and the Linux Driver Project.
- He worked in Novell's SUSE Labs and moved to the Linux Foundation on 1 February 2012.
- He co-wrote Linux Device Drivers (3rd edition) and wrote Linux Kernel in a Nutshell.
Key facts
- Maintains
- Linux -stable branch, staging, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, sysfs, Userspace I/O and the TTY layer (as of April 2013)1
- Created
- udev, linux-hotplug, the Linux Driver Project; started openSUSE Tumbleweed1
- Employers
- Novell (SUSE Labs); the Linux Foundation from 1 February 20121
- Books
- Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition (with Jonathan Corbet and Alessandro Rubini, 2005); Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (2006)1
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