Greg Kroah-Hartman is a
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developer. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch with
Chris WrightChris Wright is a Linux kernel developer. He is the current Linux kernel co-maintainer for the -stable branch with Greg Kroah-Hartman. He is involved in Linux kernel security related topics and is currently the maintainer for the LSM framework.- References :...
, the staging subsystem,
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, driver core, debugfs,
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, kobject, and the
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kernel subsystems,
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(with Hans J. Koch) and
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layer. He is also the maintainer of the linux-hotplug and created the
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projects. Additionally, he helps to maintain the
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packages for these programs, and helps with the kernel package. He works for
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in the
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Labs division. He is currently working full time on the Linux Driver Project.
He 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
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, the news computing site.
Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks and tutorials. In 2006, he released a CD image of material to introduce a programmer to working on Linux device driver development.
Books
- 2005 - Linux Device Drivers 3ed - ISBN 0-596-00590-3
- 2006 - Linux Kernel in a Nutshell 1ed - ISBN 0-596-10079-5
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