Kay Sievers

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Kay Sievers
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NationalityGerman
OccupationSoftware 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

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

  1. ↑ Sievers, Kay, udev 150, LWN.net, retrieved 2012-10-08
  2. 1 2 Lennart Poettering, "FAQs", systemd, 0pointer, retrieved 2012-10-08
  3. 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
  4. ↑ Kay Sievers, Linux Plumbers Conference, archived from the original on 2014-02-03, retrieved 2012-10-08
  5. ↑ Brockmeier, Joe, The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris [sic] into /usr, linuxfoundation.org, retrieved 2022-10-05
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline". lore.kernel.org. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
  8. ↑ Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop (PDF), retrieved 2012-10-08
  9. ↑ Kay, Sievers, 25 years now since I left the awful East German dictatorship, archived from the original on 2012-12-17, retrieved 2012-10-08
  10. ↑ vRfY.org Whois Record , retrieved 2012-10-08
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