Jonathan Corbet
Jonathan Corbet早在1981年就开始接触BSD Unix的源代码。那时,科罗拉多大 学的一名讲师让他“修正”其中的分页算法。从那时起直到现在,他深入研究了他 所遇到的每一个系统,其中包括VAX、Sun、Ardent以及x86系统的驱动程序。他 在 1993年第一次接触Linux系统,从此以后一直从事Linux的开发。Corbet先生是 《Linux Weekly News》(http://LWN.net)的创始人和执行主编。他和妻子及两个孩子生活在科罗拉多州的玻尔得市(Boulder)。
Alessandro Rubini
Alessandro Rubini在获得电子工程师资格后不久,他就安装了Linux 0.99.14版 本。后来,他在Pavia大学获得了计算机科学博士学位。但很快他就离开了大学, 因为他实在不想写文章。现在,他是一名自由撰稿人,编写有关设备驱动程序方面的文章(这也许是命运的安排)。在他的小孩出世之前,他曾是一名年轻的黑客,而现在他是一位老练、偏爱非PC计算机平台开发的自由软件鼓吹者。
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Greg Kroah-Hartman has been building the Linux kernel since 1996 and started
writing Linux kernel drivers in 1999. He is currently the maintainer of the USB,
PCI,driver core,and sysfs subsystems in the kernel source tree and is also one half of the -stable kernel release team. He created the udev program and maintains the Linux hotplug userspace project. He is a Gentoo Linux developer as well as the coauthor of the third edition of Linux Device Drivers (O'Reilly) and a contributing editor to Linux Journal. He also created and maintains the Linux Device Driver Kit. He currently works for SUSE Labs/Novell,doing various Linux kernelrelated tasks.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has been writing Linux kernel drivers since 1999 and is currently the maintainer for the USB, PCI, I2C, driver core, and sysfs kernel subsystems. He is also the maintainer of the udev and hotplug userspace programs, as well as a Gentoo kernel maintainer, ensuring that his inbox is never empty. He is a contributing editor to Linux Journal magazine.
The image on the cover of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition is a bucking bronco. A colorful description of this animal appears in Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River, by William Thayer (The Henry Bill Publishing Co., Norwich, CT, 1888). Thayer quotes a stockman, who gives this description of a bucking horse: "When a horse bucks he puts his head down between his legs, arches his back like an angrycat, and springs into the air with all his legs at once,coming down again with a frightful jar, and he sometimes keeps on repeating the performance until he is completely worn out with the excursion. The rider is apt to feel rather worn out too by that time, if he has kept his seat,which is not a very easy matter, especially if the horse is a real scientific bucker,and puts a kind of side action into every jump. The double girth commonly attached to these Mexican saddles is useful for keeping the saddle in its place during one of those bouts,but there is no doubt that they frequently make a horse buck who would not do so with a single girth.With some animals you can never draw up the flank girth without setting them bucking."