1*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. raw:: latex 2*4882a593Smuzhiyun 3*4882a593Smuzhiyun \renewcommand\thesection* 4*4882a593Smuzhiyun \renewcommand\thesubsection* 5*4882a593Smuzhiyun 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. _process_index: 7*4882a593Smuzhiyun 8*4882a593SmuzhiyunWorking with the kernel development community 9*4882a593Smuzhiyun============================================= 10*4882a593Smuzhiyun 11*4882a593SmuzhiyunSo you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot 12*4882a593Smuzhiyunto be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important 13*4882a593Smuzhiyunto learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make 14*4882a593Smuzhiyunit much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of 15*4882a593Smuzhiyuntrouble. 16*4882a593Smuzhiyun 17*4882a593SmuzhiyunBelow are the essential guides that every developer should read. 18*4882a593Smuzhiyun 19*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. toctree:: 20*4882a593Smuzhiyun :maxdepth: 1 21*4882a593Smuzhiyun 22*4882a593Smuzhiyun license-rules 23*4882a593Smuzhiyun howto 24*4882a593Smuzhiyun code-of-conduct 25*4882a593Smuzhiyun code-of-conduct-interpretation 26*4882a593Smuzhiyun development-process 27*4882a593Smuzhiyun submitting-patches 28*4882a593Smuzhiyun programming-language 29*4882a593Smuzhiyun coding-style 30*4882a593Smuzhiyun maintainer-pgp-guide 31*4882a593Smuzhiyun email-clients 32*4882a593Smuzhiyun kernel-enforcement-statement 33*4882a593Smuzhiyun kernel-driver-statement 34*4882a593Smuzhiyun 35*4882a593SmuzhiyunOther guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: 36*4882a593Smuzhiyun 37*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. toctree:: 38*4882a593Smuzhiyun :maxdepth: 1 39*4882a593Smuzhiyun 40*4882a593Smuzhiyun changes 41*4882a593Smuzhiyun submitting-drivers 42*4882a593Smuzhiyun stable-api-nonsense 43*4882a593Smuzhiyun management-style 44*4882a593Smuzhiyun stable-kernel-rules 45*4882a593Smuzhiyun submit-checklist 46*4882a593Smuzhiyun kernel-docs 47*4882a593Smuzhiyun deprecated 48*4882a593Smuzhiyun embargoed-hardware-issues 49*4882a593Smuzhiyun maintainers 50*4882a593Smuzhiyun 51*4882a593SmuzhiyunThese are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for 52*4882a593Smuzhiyunlack of a better place. 53*4882a593Smuzhiyun 54*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. toctree:: 55*4882a593Smuzhiyun :maxdepth: 1 56*4882a593Smuzhiyun 57*4882a593Smuzhiyun applying-patches 58*4882a593Smuzhiyun adding-syscalls 59*4882a593Smuzhiyun magic-number 60*4882a593Smuzhiyun volatile-considered-harmful 61*4882a593Smuzhiyun botching-up-ioctls 62*4882a593Smuzhiyun clang-format 63*4882a593Smuzhiyun ../riscv/patch-acceptance 64*4882a593Smuzhiyun ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access 65*4882a593Smuzhiyun 66*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. only:: subproject and html 67*4882a593Smuzhiyun 68*4882a593Smuzhiyun Indices 69*4882a593Smuzhiyun ======= 70*4882a593Smuzhiyun 71*4882a593Smuzhiyun * :ref:`genindex` 72