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So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of trouble.
Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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license-rules howto code-of-conduct code-of-conduct-interpretation development-process submitting-patches handling-regressions programming-language coding-style maintainer-handbooks maintainer-pgp-guide email-clients kernel-enforcement-statement kernel-driver-statement
For security issues, see:
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security-bugs embargoed-hardware-issues
Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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changes stable-api-nonsense management-style stable-kernel-rules submit-checklist kernel-docs deprecated maintainers researcher-guidelines contribution-maturity-model
These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for lack of a better place.
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applying-patches adding-syscalls magic-number volatile-considered-harmful botching-up-ioctls clang-format ../riscv/patch-acceptance ../core-api/unaligned-memory-access
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