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   8 Working with the kernel development community
   9 =============================================
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  11 So you want to be a Linux kernel developer?  Welcome!  While there is a lot
  12 to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
  13 to learn about how our community works.  Reading these documents will make
  14 it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
  15 trouble.
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  17 Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
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  19 .. toctree::
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  22    howto
  23    code-of-conflict
  24    development-process
  25    submitting-patches
  26    coding-style
  27    email-clients
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  29 Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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  31 .. toctree::
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  34    changes
  35    submitting-drivers
  36    stable-api-nonsense
  37    management-style
  38    stable-kernel-rules
  39    submit-checklist
  40    kernel-docs
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  42 These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
  43 lack of a better place.
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  45 .. toctree::
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  48    applying-patches
  49    adding-syscalls
  50    magic-number
  51    volatile-considered-harmful
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  55    Indices
  56    =======
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  58    * :ref:`genindex`