Mentorship Session: Best Practices to Getting Your Patches Accepted

Best Practices to Getting Your Patches Accepted
December 8 | 7:00 – 8:30 am PST

Join Linux Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman to learn Best Practices to Getting Your Patches Accepted.

As the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koch), and TTY layer, and creator of linux-hotplug, the udev project, and the Linux Driver Project, Greg is well-positioned to help set you up for success in getting patches accepted.

The session will begin with an overview by Greg Kroah-Hartman (45 minutes) and will be followed by Q&A – an opportunity to both ask Greg questions and for group discussion (45 minutes).

Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Greg is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment.

Greg created and maintains the Linux Driver Project. He is also currently the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of different subsystems that include USB, staging, driver core, tty, and sysfs, among others. Most recently, he was a Fellow at SUSE.