Kay Sievers
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Kay Sievers | |
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| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | udev, systemd, Gummiboot |
Kay Sievers is a German computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux,[1] systemd[2] and the Gummiboot EFI bootloader.[3]
Biography
[edit]Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.[4]
In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib, /bin and /sbin file-system trees into /usr, a simplification which other distributions such as Arch Linux have since adopted.[5]
In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel.[6][7]
Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019.[3] Sievers previously worked for Novell.[2][8]
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany[9] and nowadays[when?] resides in Berlin, Germany.[10][failed verification]
References
[edit]- ↑ Sievers, Kay, udev 150, LWN.net, retrieved 2012-10-08
- 1 2 Lennart Poettering, "FAQs", systemd, 0pointer, retrieved 2012-10-08
- 1 2 Fabian, Scherschel, Gummiboot is an EFI bootloader that "just works", The H, archived from the original on 7 December 2013, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ↑ Kay Sievers, Linux Plumbers Conference, archived from the original on 2014-02-03, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ↑ Brockmeier, Joe, The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris [sic] into /usr, linuxfoundation.org, retrieved 2022-10-05
- ↑ Jon Gold (3 April 2014). "Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer: Kernel panic as Systemd dev pokes the bear". Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ↑ "Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline". lore.kernel.org. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop (PDF), retrieved 2012-10-08
- ↑ Kay, Sievers, 25 years now since I left the awful East German dictatorship, retrieved 2012-10-08
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ vRfY.org Whois Record, retrieved 2012-10-08
