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 howto 23 code-of-conduct 24 development-process 25 submitting-patches 26 programming-language 27 coding-style 28 maintainer-pgp-guide 29 email-clients 30 kernel-enforcement-statement 31 kernel-driver-statement 32 33Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: 34 35.. toctree:: 36 :maxdepth: 1 37 38 changes 39 submitting-drivers 40 stable-api-nonsense 41 management-style 42 stable-kernel-rules 43 submit-checklist 44 kernel-docs 45 46These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for 47lack of a better place. 48 49.. toctree:: 50 :maxdepth: 1 51 52 applying-patches 53 adding-syscalls 54 magic-number 55 volatile-considered-harmful 56 clang-format 57 58.. only:: subproject and html 59 60 Indices 61 ======= 62 63 * :ref:`genindex` 64