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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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39.. toctree::
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42 changes
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
51 researcher-guidelines
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53These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
54lack of a better place.
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56.. toctree::
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59 applying-patches
60 adding-syscalls
61 magic-number
62 volatile-considered-harmful
63 botching-up-ioctls
64 clang-format
65 ../riscv/patch-acceptance
66 ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access
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70 Indices
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73 * :ref:`genindex`