Documentation/process/index.rst

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   8 Working with the kernel development community
   9 =============================================
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  11 So you want to be a Linux kernel developer?  Welcome!  While there is a lot
  12 to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
  13 to learn about how our community works.  Reading these documents will make
  14 it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
  15 trouble.
  16
  17 Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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  19 .. toctree::
  20    :maxdepth: 1
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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
  35
  36 Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
  37
  38 .. toctree::
  39    :maxdepth: 1
  40
  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
  51
  52 These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
  53 lack of a better place.
  54
  55 .. toctree::
  56    :maxdepth: 1
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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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  67 .. only::  subproject and html
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  69    Indices
  70    =======
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  72    * :ref:`genindex`