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9 Working with the kernel development community
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12 So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
13 to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
14 to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
15 it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
18 An introduction to how kernel development works
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21 Read these documents first: an understanding of the material here will ease
22 your entry into the kernel community.
32 Tools and technical guides for kernel developers
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35 This is a collection of material that kernel developers should be familiar
49 volatile-considered-harmful
52 Policy guides and developer statements
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55 These are the rules that we try to live by in the kernel community (and
63 code-of-conduct-interpretation
64 contribution-maturity-model
65 kernel-enforcement-statement
66 kernel-driver-statement
75 Bugs are a fact of life; it is important that we handle them properly.
76 The documents below describe our policies around the handling of a couple
77 of special classes of bugs: regressions and security problems.
85 embargoed-hardware-issues
87 Maintainer information
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90 How to find the people who will accept your patches.
101 Here are some other guides to the community that are of interest to most
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