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Working with the kernel development community
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So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
trouble.
Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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:maxdepth: 1
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howto
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code-of-conflict
development-process
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submitting-patches
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coding-style
email-clients
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kernel-enforcement-statement
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kernel-driver-statement
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Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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:maxdepth: 1
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changes
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submitting-drivers
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
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submit-checklist
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kernel-docs
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These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
lack of a better place.
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:maxdepth: 1
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applying-patches
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
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Indices
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* :ref: `genindex`