Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel hacker. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the 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. [ [http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux_driver_project_kickoff.html Linux Driver Project Kickoff] ]

He is a co-author of "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition" [ [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3 O'reilly: Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition] ] and author of "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell", [ [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100797/ O'reilly: Linux Kernel in a Nutshell] ] 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 [ [http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=104 Linux Symposium: Keynote by Greg Kroah-Hartman, 3 myths, 2 lies, and 5 truths about Linux kernel development] ] [ [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_sess/8387 O'reilly Net: Current State of the Linux Kernel] ] and tutorials. [ [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_sess/8388 O'reilly Net: Write A Real, Working Linux Driver] ] [ [http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=283 Linux Symposium: Write a real, working Linux driver tutorial] ] In 2006, he released a CD image of material to introduce a programmer to working on Linux device driver development. [ [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/ddk/ Kernel.org: Linux DDK] ]

Books

* 2005 - "Linux Device Drivers" 3ed - ISBN 0-596-00590-3
* 2006 - "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" 1ed - ISBN 0-596-10079-5

References

External links

* [http://www.kroah.com/log/ Greg Kroah-Hartman's blog]
* [http://www.kroah.com/linux/ Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linux page]
* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/user/800887/track List of articles written by Greg Kroah-Hartman in "Linux Journal"]
* [http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/howto.html Greg Kroah-Hartman's HOWTO article on Linux kernel development]
* [http://www.linuxdriverproject.org Linux Driver Project]
* [http://www.linux-magazin.de/news/video_greg_kroah_hartman_ueber_hardwarehersteller_und_rocket_launcher Video with Greg Kroah-Hartman at Hannover Industry Trade Fair, Germany, May 2008]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3385088017824733336 Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux Plumbers Keynote (video)]