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| 6 | .. _process_index: |
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| 8 | Working with the kernel development community |
| 9 | ============================================= |
| 10 | |
| 11 | So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot |
| 12 | to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important |
| 13 | to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make |
| 14 | it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of |
| 15 | trouble. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | .. toctree:: |
| 20 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| 21 | |
| 22 | howto |
| 23 | code-of-conflict |
| 24 | development-process |
| 25 | submitting-patches |
| 26 | coding-style |
| 27 | email-clients |
| 28 | kernel-enforcement-statement |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: |
| 31 | |
| 32 | .. toctree:: |
| 33 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| 34 | |
| 35 | changes |
| 36 | submitting-drivers |
| 37 | stable-api-nonsense |
| 38 | management-style |
| 39 | stable-kernel-rules |
| 40 | submit-checklist |
| 41 | kernel-docs |
| 42 | |
| 43 | These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for |
| 44 | lack of a better place. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | .. toctree:: |
| 47 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| 48 | |
| 49 | applying-patches |
| 50 | adding-syscalls |
| 51 | magic-number |
| 52 | volatile-considered-harmful |
| 53 | |
| 54 | .. only:: subproject and html |
| 55 | |
| 56 | Indices |
| 57 | ======= |
| 58 | |
| 59 | * :ref:`genindex` |