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| A guide to the Kernel Development Process | |
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| Contents: | |
| .. toctree:: | |
| :numbered: | |
| :maxdepth: 2 | |
| 1.Intro | |
| 2.Process | |
| 3.Early-stage | |
| 4.Coding | |
| 5.Posting | |
| 6.Followthrough | |
| 7.AdvancedTopics | |
| 8.Conclusion | |
| The purpose of this document is to help developers (and their managers) | |
| work with the development community with a minimum of frustration. It is | |
| an attempt to document how this community works in a way which is | |
| accessible to those who are not intimately familiar with Linux kernel | |
| development (or, indeed, free software development in general). While | |
| there is some technical material here, this is very much a process-oriented | |
| discussion which does not require a deep knowledge of kernel programming to | |
| understand. |