1.. raw:: latex 2 3 \renewcommand\thesection* 4 \renewcommand\thesubsection* 5 6.. _process_index: 7 8============================================= 9Working with the kernel development community 10============================================= 11 12So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot 13to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important 14to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make 15it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of 16trouble. 17 18Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. 19 20.. toctree:: 21 :maxdepth: 1 22 23 license-rules 24 howto 25 code-of-conduct 26 code-of-conduct-interpretation 27 development-process 28 submitting-patches 29 handling-regressions 30 programming-language 31 coding-style 32 maintainer-handbooks 33 maintainer-pgp-guide 34 email-clients 35 kernel-enforcement-statement 36 kernel-driver-statement 37 38For security issues, see: 39 40.. toctree:: 41 :maxdepth: 1 42 43 security-bugs 44 embargoed-hardware-issues 45 46Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: 47 48.. toctree:: 49 :maxdepth: 1 50 51 changes 52 stable-api-nonsense 53 management-style 54 stable-kernel-rules 55 submit-checklist 56 kernel-docs 57 deprecated 58 maintainers 59 researcher-guidelines 60 contribution-maturity-model 61 62These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for 63lack of a better place. 64 65.. toctree:: 66 :maxdepth: 1 67 68 applying-patches 69 backporting 70 adding-syscalls 71 magic-number 72 volatile-considered-harmful 73 botching-up-ioctls 74 clang-format 75 ../arch/riscv/patch-acceptance 76 ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access 77 78.. only:: subproject and html 79 80 Indices 81 ======= 82 83 * :ref:`genindex` 84