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 18An introduction to how kernel development works 19----------------------------------------------- 20 21Read these documents first: an understanding of the material here will ease 22your entry into the kernel community. 23 24.. toctree:: 25 :maxdepth: 1 26 27 howto 28 development-process 29 submitting-patches 30 submit-checklist 31 32Tools and technical guides for kernel developers 33------------------------------------------------ 34 35This is a collection of material that kernel developers should be familiar 36with. 37 38.. toctree:: 39 :maxdepth: 1 40 41 changes 42 programming-language 43 coding-style 44 maintainer-pgp-guide 45 email-clients 46 applying-patches 47 backporting 48 adding-syscalls 49 volatile-considered-harmful 50 botching-up-ioctls 51 52Policy guides and developer statements 53-------------------------------------- 54 55These are the rules that we try to live by in the kernel community (and 56beyond). 57 58.. toctree:: 59 :maxdepth: 1 60 61 license-rules 62 code-of-conduct 63 code-of-conduct-interpretation 64 contribution-maturity-model 65 kernel-enforcement-statement 66 kernel-driver-statement 67 stable-api-nonsense 68 stable-kernel-rules 69 management-style 70 researcher-guidelines 71 generated-content 72 coding-assistants 73 conclave 74 75Dealing with bugs 76----------------- 77 78Bugs are a fact of life; it is important that we handle them properly. The 79documents below provide general advice about debugging and describe our 80policies around the handling of a couple of special classes of bugs: 81regressions and security problems. 82 83.. toctree:: 84 :maxdepth: 1 85 86 debugging/index 87 handling-regressions 88 security-bugs 89 threat-model 90 cve 91 embargoed-hardware-issues 92 93Maintainer information 94---------------------- 95 96How to find the people who will accept your patches. 97 98.. toctree:: 99 :maxdepth: 1 100 101 maintainer-handbooks 102 maintainers 103 104Other material 105-------------- 106 107Here are some other guides to the community that are of interest to most 108developers: 109 110.. toctree:: 111 :maxdepth: 1 112 113 kernel-docs 114 deprecated 115