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    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
  36
  37 Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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  39 .. toctree::
  40    :maxdepth: 1
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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
  53
  54 These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
  55 lack of a better place.
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  57 .. toctree::
  58    :maxdepth: 1
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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
  72    =======
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  74    * :ref:`genindex`