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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 handling-regressions
29 programming-language
30 coding-style
31 maintainer-handbooks
32 maintainer-pgp-guide
33 email-clients
34 kernel-enforcement-statement
35 kernel-driver-statement
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37Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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42 changes
43 submitting-drivers
44 stable-api-nonsense
45 management-style
46 stable-kernel-rules
47 submit-checklist
48 kernel-docs
49 deprecated
50 embargoed-hardware-issues
51 maintainers
52 researcher-guidelines
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54These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
55lack of a better place.
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57.. toctree::
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60 applying-patches
61 adding-syscalls
62 magic-number
63 volatile-considered-harmful
64 botching-up-ioctls
65 clang-format
66 ../riscv/patch-acceptance
67 ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access
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71 Indices
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74 * :ref:`genindex`