Greg Kroah-Hartman (GKH) is a major

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developer. he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core,

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, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems,

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I/O (with Hans J. Koch), and TTY layer. He also created linux-hotplug, the

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project, and the Linux Driver Project. He worked for

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in the

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Labs division and, , works at the

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Biography

Kroah-Hartman is a co-author of ''Linux Device Drivers'' (3rd Edition) and author of ''Linux Kernel in a Nutshell'', and used to be a contributing editor for ''

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''. He also contributes articles to LWN.net, the Linux news site. Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks and tutorials. In 2006, he released a

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of material to introduce a programmer to working on Linux device driver development. He also initiated the development of openSUSE Tumbleweed, the

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model edition of openSUSE. In April 2021, Kroah-Hartman announced the decision to ban the

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from contributing to the Linux kernel and to revert all prior patches from the university after researchers intentionally inserted bugs in an unauthorised penetration test.

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References

External links

Greg Kroah-Hartman's blog

Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linux page

List of articles written by Greg Kroah-Hartman in ''Linux Journal''

List of articles written by Greg Kroah-Hartman in LWN

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Video with Greg Kroah-Hartman at Hannover Industry Trade Fair, Germany, May 2008

Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux Plumbers Keynote (video)
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