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1.. raw:: latex 2 3 \renewcommand\thesection* 4 \renewcommand\thesubsection* 5 6.. _process_index: 7 8Working with the kernel development community 9============================================= 10 11So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot 12to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important 13to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make 14it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of 15trouble. 16 17Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. 18 19.. toctree:: 20 :maxdepth: 1 21 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 37Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: 38 39.. toctree:: 40 :maxdepth: 1 41 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 54These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for 55lack of a better place. 56 57.. toctree:: 58 :maxdepth: 1 59 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 68 69.. only:: subproject and html 70 71 Indices 72 ======= 73 74 * :ref:`genindex`