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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
license-rules
howto
code-of-conduct
code-of-conduct-interpretation
development-process
submitting-patches
handling-regressions
programming-language
coding-style
maintainer-handbooks
maintainer-pgp-guide
email-clients
kernel-enforcement-statement
kernel-driver-statement
For security issues, see:
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:maxdepth: 1
security-bugs
embargoed-hardware-issues
Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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:maxdepth: 1
changes
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
submit-checklist
kernel-docs
deprecated
maintainers
researcher-guidelines
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
applying-patches
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
botching-up-ioctls
clang-format
../riscv/patch-acceptance
../core-api/unaligned-memory-access
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