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8 The Linux Kernel documentation
9 ==============================
11 This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
12 documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
13 that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
14 documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
15 documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
18 Licensing documentation
19 -----------------------
21 The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code
22 (GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source
23 tree, as well as links to the full license text.
25 * :ref:`kernel_licensing`
27 User-oriented documentation
28 ---------------------------
30 The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
31 trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
38 Application-developer documentation
39 -----------------------------------
41 The user-space API manual gathers together documents describing aspects of
42 the kernel interface as seen by application developers.
50 Introduction to kernel development
51 ----------------------------------
53 These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel.
54 The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers
55 contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community,
56 knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes
69 Kernel API documentation
70 ------------------------
72 These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
73 from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
74 is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
75 as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
94 Architecture-specific documentation
95 -----------------------------------
97 These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
105 Filesystem Documentation
106 ------------------------
108 The documentation in this section are provided by specific filesystem
114 filesystems/ext4/index