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| A guide to the Kernel Development Process |
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| 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. |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :caption: Contents |
| :numbered: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
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| 1.Intro |
| 2.Process |
| 3.Early-stage |
| 4.Coding |
| 5.Posting |
| 6.Followthrough |
| 7.AdvancedTopics |
| 8.Conclusion |