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 programming-language 29 coding-style 30 maintainer-handbooks 31 maintainer-pgp-guide 32 email-clients 33 kernel-enforcement-statement 34 kernel-driver-statement 35 36Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: 37 38.. toctree:: 39 :maxdepth: 1 40 41 changes 42 submitting-drivers 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 52These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for 53lack of a better place. 54 55.. toctree:: 56 :maxdepth: 1 57 58 applying-patches 59 adding-syscalls 60 magic-number 61 volatile-considered-harmful 62 botching-up-ioctls 63 clang-format 64 ../riscv/patch-acceptance 65 ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access 66 67.. only:: subproject and html 68 69 Indices 70 ======= 71 72 * :ref:`genindex` 73