| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. raw:: latex |
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| 3 | \renewcommand\thesection* |
| 4 | \renewcommand\thesubsection* |
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| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 7 | Working with the kernel development community |
| 8 | ============================================= |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | f0ddda3 | 2016-09-19 08:07:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 10 | So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot |
| 11 | to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important |
| 12 | to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make |
| 13 | it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of |
| 14 | trouble. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | f0ddda3 | 2016-09-19 08:07:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
| 18 | .. toctree:: |
| 19 | :maxdepth: 2 |
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| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | howto |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 22 | code-of-conflict |
| 23 | development-process |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | submitting-patches |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 25 | coding-style |
| 26 | email-clients |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: |
| 29 | |
| 30 | .. toctree:: |
| 31 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 32 | |
| 33 | changes |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | submitting-drivers |
| 35 | stable-api-nonsense |
| 36 | management-style |
| 37 | stable-kernel-rules |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | submit-checklist |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame^] | 39 | kernel-docs |
| 40 | |
| 41 | These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for |
| 42 | lack of a better place. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | .. toctree:: |
| 45 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 46 | |
| 47 | applying-patches |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | adding-syscalls |
| 49 | magic-number |
| 50 | volatile-considered-harmful |
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