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.
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  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    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
  52
  53 These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
  54 lack of a better place.
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  56 .. toctree::
  57    :maxdepth: 1
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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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  68 .. only::  subproject and html
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  70    Indices
  71    =======
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  73    * :ref:`genindex`