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5 The Linux Kernel documentation
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8 This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
9 documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
10 that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
11 documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
12 documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
15 Working with the development community
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18 The essential guides for interacting with the kernel's development
19 community and getting your work upstream.
24 process/development-process
25 process/submitting-patches
26 Code of conduct <process/code-of-conduct>
28 All development-process docs <process/index>
34 Manuals for use by developers working to interface with the rest of the
43 Locking in the kernel <locking/index>
45 Development tools and processes
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48 Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers.
56 dev-tools/testing-overview
64 User-oriented documentation
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67 The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
68 trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application
69 developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
75 The kernel build system <kbuild/index>
76 admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
77 User-space tools <tools/index>
80 See also: the `Linux man pages <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/>`_,
81 which are kept separately from the kernel's own documentation.
83 Firmware-related documentation
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85 The following holds information on the kernel's expectations regarding the
95 Architecture-specific documentation
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107 There are several unsorted documents that don't seem to fit on other parts
108 of the documentation body, or may require some adjustments and/or conversion
109 to ReStructured Text format, or are simply too old.