Documentation/process/index.rst

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   7 Working with the kernel development community
   8 =============================================
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  10 So you want to be a Linux kernel developer?  Welcome!  While there is a lot
  11 to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
  12 to learn about how our community works.  Reading these documents will make
  13 it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
  14 trouble.
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  16 Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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  18 .. toctree::
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  21    howto
  22    code-of-conflict
  23    development-process
  24    submitting-patches
  25    coding-style
  26    email-clients
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  28 Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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  33    changes
  34    submitting-drivers
  35    stable-api-nonsense
  36    management-style
  37    stable-kernel-rules
  38    submit-checklist
  39    kernel-docs
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  41 These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
  42 lack of a better place.
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  44 .. toctree::
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  47    applying-patches
  48    adding-syscalls
  49    magic-number
  50    volatile-considered-harmful
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  54    Indices
  55    =======
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  57    * :ref:`genindex`