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8Working with the kernel development community
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11So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
12to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
13to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
14it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
15trouble.
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17Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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19.. toctree::
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22 license-rules
23 howto
24 code-of-conduct
25 code-of-conduct-interpretation
26 development-process
27 submitting-patches
28 programming-language
29 coding-style
30 maintainer-handbooks
31 maintainer-pgp-guide
32 email-clients
33 kernel-enforcement-statement
34 kernel-driver-statement
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36Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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38.. toctree::
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41 changes
42 submitting-drivers
43 stable-api-nonsense
44 management-style
45 stable-kernel-rules
46 submit-checklist
47 kernel-docs
48 deprecated
49 embargoed-hardware-issues
50 maintainers
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52These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
53lack of a better place.
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55.. toctree::
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58 applying-patches
59 adding-syscalls
60 magic-number
61 volatile-considered-harmful
62 botching-up-ioctls
63 clang-format
64 ../riscv/patch-acceptance
65 ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access
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69 Indices
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72 * :ref:`genindex`