A guide to the Kernel Development Process¶

The purpose of this document is to help developers (and their managers)work with the development community with a minimum of frustration. It isan attempt to document how this community works in a way which isaccessible to those who are not intimately familiar with Linux kerneldevelopment (or, indeed, free software development in general). Whilethere is some technical material here, this is very much a process-orienteddiscussion which does not require a deep knowledge of kernel programming tounderstand.