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Working with the kernel development community
=============================================
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.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
license-rules
howto
code-of-conduct
Code of Conduct Interpretation: Add document explaining how the Code of Conduct is to be interpreted The Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct is a general document meant to provide a set of rules for almost any open source community. Every open-source community is unique and the Linux kernel is no exception. Because of this, this document describes how we in the Linux kernel community will interpret it. We also do not expect this interpretation to be static over time, and will adjust it as needed. This document was created with the input and feedback of the TAB as well as many current kernel maintainers. Co-Developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Co-Developed-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org> Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Christian Lütke-Stetzkamp <christian@lkamp.de> Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Acked-by: David Sterba <kdave@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com> Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Acked-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Mishi Choudhary <mishi@linux.com> Acked-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Acked-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Acked-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Acked-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-14 17:16:47 +03:00
code-of-conduct-interpretation
development-process
submitting-patches
programming-language
coding-style
maintainer-pgp-guide
email-clients
Documentation: Add a file explaining the Linux kernel license enforcement policy This adds a short document describing the views of how the Linux kernel community feels about enforcing the license of the kernel. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Alex Elder (Linaro) <elder@linaro.org> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org> Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Acked-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Acked-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong (Oracle) <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara (SUSE) <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel (SUSE) <jroedel@suse.de> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org> Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Walleij (Linaro) <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Lv Zheng <zetalog@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel (Collabora) <sre@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai (SUSE) <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-04 17:17:55 +03:00
kernel-enforcement-statement
kernel-driver-statement
Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
changes
submitting-drivers
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
submit-checklist
kernel-docs
deprecated
Documentation/process: Embargoed hardware security issues To address the requirements of embargoed hardware issues, like Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF etc. it is necessary to define and document a process for handling embargoed hardware security issues. Following the discussion at the maintainer summit 2018 in Edinburgh (https://lwn.net/Articles/769417/) the volunteered people have worked out a process and a Memorandum of Understanding. The latter addresses the fact that the Linux kernel community cannot sign NDAs for various reasons. The initial contact point for hardware security issues is different from the regular kernel security contact to provide a known and neutral interface for hardware vendors and researchers. The initial primary contact team is proposed to be staffed by Linux Foundation Fellows, who are not associated to a vendor or a distribution and are well connected in the industry as a whole. The process is designed with the experience of the past incidents in mind and tries to address the remaining gaps, so future (hopefully rare) incidents can be handled more efficiently. It won't remove the fact, that most of this has to be done behind closed doors, but it is set up to avoid big bureaucratic hurdles for individual developers. The process is solely for handling hardware security issues and cannot be used for regular kernel (software only) security bugs. This memo can help with hardware companies who, and I quote, "[my manager] doesn't want to bet his job on the list keeping things secret." This despite numerous leaks directly from that company over the years, and none ever so far from the kernel security team. Cognitive dissidence seems to be a requirement to be a good manager. To accelerate the adoption of this process, we introduce the concept of ambassadors in participating companies. The ambassadors are there to guide people to comply with the process, but are not automatically involved in the disclosure of a particular incident. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190815212505.GC12041@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-08-16 00:25:05 +03:00
embargoed-hardware-issues
These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
lack of a better place.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
applying-patches
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
clang-format
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Indices
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* :ref:`genindex`