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9Working with the kernel development community
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12So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
13to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
14to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
15it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
16trouble.
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18Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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20.. toctree::
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23 license-rules
24 howto
25 code-of-conduct
26 code-of-conduct-interpretation
27 development-process
28 submitting-patches
29 handling-regressions
30 programming-language
31 coding-style
32 maintainer-handbooks
33 maintainer-pgp-guide
34 email-clients
35 kernel-enforcement-statement
36 kernel-driver-statement
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38Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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40.. toctree::
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43 changes
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`