| | 1 | .. raw:: latex |
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| | 3 | \renewcommand\thesection* |
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| | 5 | |
| | 6 | .. _process_index: |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | ============================================= |
| | 9 | Working with the kernel development community |
| | 10 | ============================================= |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot |
| | 13 | to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important |
| | 14 | to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make |
| | 15 | it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of |
| | 16 | trouble. |
| | 17 | |
| | 18 | Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | .. toctree:: |
| | 21 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| | 22 | |
| | 23 | license-rules |
| | 24 | howto |
| | 25 | code-of-conduct |
| | 26 | code-of-conduct-interpretation |
| | 27 | development-process |
| | 28 | submitting-patches |
| | 29 | handling-regressions |
| | 30 | programming-language |
| | 31 | coding-style |
| | 32 | maintainer-handbooks |
| | 33 | maintainer-pgp-guide |
| | 34 | email-clients |
| | 35 | kernel-enforcement-statement |
| | 36 | kernel-driver-statement |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | For security issues, see: |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | .. toctree:: |
| | 41 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | security-bugs |
| | 44 | embargoed-hardware-issues |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | .. toctree:: |
| | 49 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | changes |
| | 52 | stable-api-nonsense |
| | 53 | management-style |
| | 54 | stable-kernel-rules |
| | 55 | submit-checklist |
| | 56 | kernel-docs |
| | 57 | deprecated |
| | 58 | maintainers |
| | 59 | researcher-guidelines |
| | 60 | contribution-maturity-model |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for |
| | 63 | lack of a better place. |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | .. toctree:: |
| | 66 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| | 67 | |
| | 68 | applying-patches |
| | 69 | adding-syscalls |
| | 70 | magic-number |
| | 71 | volatile-considered-harmful |
| | 72 | botching-up-ioctls |
| | 73 | clang-format |
| | 74 | ../riscv/patch-acceptance |
| | 75 | ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access |
| | 76 | |
| | 77 | .. only:: subproject and html |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | Indices |
| | 80 | ======= |
| | 81 | |
| | 82 | * :ref:`genindex` |
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