| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. raw:: latex |
| 2 | |
| 3 | \renewcommand\thesection* |
| 4 | \renewcommand\thesubsection* |
| 5 | |
| Daniel Vetter | eadf71c | 2017-03-21 16:52:28 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | .. _process_index: |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | Working with the kernel development community |
| 9 | ============================================= |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | f0ddda3 | 2016-09-19 08:07:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 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. |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | f0ddda3 | 2016-09-19 08:07:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | |
| 19 | .. toctree:: |
| Jonathan Corbet | be46124 | 2016-10-26 16:41:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | f0ddda3 | 2016-09-19 08:07:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | howto |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | code-of-conflict |
| 24 | development-process |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | submitting-patches |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | coding-style |
| 27 | email-clients |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | .. toctree:: |
| Jonathan Corbet | be46124 | 2016-10-26 16:41:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | |
| 34 | changes |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | submitting-drivers |
| 36 | stable-api-nonsense |
| 37 | management-style |
| 38 | stable-kernel-rules |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | submit-checklist |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | kernel-docs |
| 41 | |
| 42 | These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for |
| 43 | lack of a better place. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | .. toctree:: |
| Jonathan Corbet | be46124 | 2016-10-26 16:41:05 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| Jonathan Corbet | 9b4ebd9 | 2016-10-26 16:34:09 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
| 48 | applying-patches |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 186128f | 2016-09-21 08:40:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | adding-syscalls |
| 50 | magic-number |
| 51 | volatile-considered-harmful |
| 52 | |
| Markus Heiser | 6f2ec3a | 2016-10-26 08:23:16 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | .. only:: subproject and html |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Indices |
| 56 | ======= |
| 57 | |
| 58 | * :ref:`genindex` |