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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    maintainer-pgp-guide
  28    email-clients
  29    kernel-enforcement-statement
  30    kernel-driver-statement
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  32 Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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  34 .. toctree::
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  37    changes
  38    submitting-drivers
  39    stable-api-nonsense
  40    management-style
  41    stable-kernel-rules
  42    submit-checklist
  43    kernel-docs
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  45 These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
  46 lack of a better place.
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  48 .. toctree::
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  51    applying-patches
  52    adding-syscalls
  53    magic-number
  54    volatile-considered-harmful
  55    clang-format
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  59    Indices
  60    =======
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  62    * :ref:`genindex`