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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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.. _linux_doc:
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The Linux Kernel documentation
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This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
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documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
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that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
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documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
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documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
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you want to help out.
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Working with the development community
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The essential guides for interacting with the kernel's development
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community and getting your work upstream.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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Development process <process/development-process>
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Submitting patches <process/submitting-patches>
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Code of conduct <process/code-of-conduct>
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Maintainer handbook <maintainer/index>
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All development-process docs <process/index>
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Internal API manuals
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====================
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Manuals for use by developers working to interface with the rest of the
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kernel.
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:maxdepth: 1
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Core API <core-api/index>
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Driver APIs <driver-api/index>
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Subsystems <subsystem-apis>
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Locking <locking/index>
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Development tools and processes
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Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers.
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:maxdepth: 1
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Licensing rules <process/license-rules>
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Writing documentation <doc-guide/index>
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Development tools <dev-tools/index>
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Testing guide <dev-tools/testing-overview>
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Hacking guide <kernel-hacking/index>
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Tracing <trace/index>
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Fault injection <fault-injection/index>
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Livepatching <livepatch/index>
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Rust <rust/index>
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User-oriented documentation
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The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
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trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application
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developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
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:maxdepth: 1
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Administration <admin-guide/index>
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Build system <kbuild/index>
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Reporting issues <admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst>
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Userspace tools <tools/index>
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Userspace API <userspace-api/index>
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See also: the `Linux man pages <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/>`_,
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which are kept separately from the kernel's own documentation.
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Firmware-related documentation
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The following holds information on the kernel's expectations regarding the
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platform firmwares.
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:maxdepth: 1
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Firmware <firmware-guide/index>
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Firmware and Devicetree <devicetree/index>
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Architecture-specific documentation
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:maxdepth: 2
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CPU architectures <arch/index>
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Other documentation
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===================
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There are several unsorted documents that don't seem to fit on other parts
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of the documentation body, or may require some adjustments and/or conversion
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to ReStructured Text format, or are simply too old.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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Unsorted documentation <staging/index>
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Translations
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============
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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Translations <translations/index>
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Indices and tables
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==================
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* :ref:`genindex`
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