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 conclave 72 73Dealing with bugs 74----------------- 75 76Bugs are a fact of life; it is important that we handle them properly. The 77documents below provide general advice about debugging and describe our 78policies around the handling of a couple of special classes of bugs: 79regressions and security problems. 80 81.. toctree:: 82 :maxdepth: 1 83 84 debugging/index 85 handling-regressions 86 security-bugs 87 cve 88 embargoed-hardware-issues 89 90Maintainer information 91---------------------- 92 93How to find the people who will accept your patches. 94 95.. toctree:: 96 :maxdepth: 1 97 98 maintainer-handbooks 99 maintainers 100 101Other material 102-------------- 103 104Here are some other guides to the community that are of interest to most 105developers: 106 107.. toctree:: 108 :maxdepth: 1 109 110 kernel-docs 111 deprecated 112 113.. only:: subproject and html 114 115 Indices 116 ======= 117 118 * :ref:`genindex` 119