Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
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| Other names | Greg KH |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | Linux Foundation[1] |
| Website | www |
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a majorLinux kernel developer. As of April 2013[update], he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the-stable branch,[2] the staging subsystem,[2]USB,[2] driver core,debugfs,kref,kobject, and thesysfs kernel subsystems,[2]UserspaceI/O (with Hans J. Koch),[2] andTTY layer.[2] He also createdlinux-hotplug, theudev project, and theLinux Driver Project.[3] He worked forNovell in theSUSE Labs division and, as of 1 February 2012[update], works at theLinux Foundation.[1][4]
Kroah-Hartman is a co-author ofLinux Device Drivers (3rd Edition)[5] and author ofLinux Kernel in a Nutshell,[6] and used to be a contributing editor forLinux Journal. He also contributes articles toLWN.net, the Linux news site.
Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks[7][8] and tutorials.[9][10] In 2006, he released aCD image of material to introduce a programmer to working on Linux device driver development.[11]
He also initiated the development ofopenSUSE Tumbleweed, therolling release model edition of openSUSE.[12][13]
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