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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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18An introduction to how kernel development works
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21Read these documents first: an understanding of the material here will ease
22your entry into the kernel community.
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27 howto
28 development-process
29 submitting-patches
30 submit-checklist
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32Tools and technical guides for kernel developers
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35This is a collection of material that kernel developers should be familiar
36with.
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41 changes
42 programming-language
43 coding-style
44 maintainer-pgp-guide
45 email-clients
46 applying-patches
47 backporting
48 adding-syscalls
49 volatile-considered-harmful
50 botching-up-ioctls
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52Policy guides and developer statements
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55These are the rules that we try to live by in the kernel community (and
56beyond).
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61 license-rules
62 code-of-conduct
63 code-of-conduct-interpretation
64 contribution-maturity-model
65 kernel-enforcement-statement
66 kernel-driver-statement
67 stable-api-nonsense
68 stable-kernel-rules
69 management-style
70 researcher-guidelines
71
72Dealing with bugs
73-----------------
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75Bugs are a fact of life; it is important that we handle them properly.
76The documents below describe our policies around the handling of a couple
77of special classes of bugs: regressions and security problems.
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82 handling-regressions
83 security-bugs
84 cve
85 embargoed-hardware-issues
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87Maintainer information
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90How to find the people who will accept your patches.
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95 maintainer-handbooks
96 maintainers
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98Other material
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101Here are some other guides to the community that are of interest to most
102developers:
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107 kernel-docs
108 deprecated
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112 Indices
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115 * :ref:`genindex`