Disclaimer¶

Translation’s purpose is to ease reading and understanding in languages otherthan English. Its aim is to help people who do not understand English or havedoubts about its interpretation. Additionally, some people prefer to readdocumentation in their native language, but please bear in mind that theonly official documentation is the English one:The Linux Kernel documentation.

It is very unlikely that an update toThe Linux Kernel documentation will be propagatedimmediately to all translations. Translations’ maintainers - andcontributors - follow the evolution of the official documentation and theymaintain translations aligned as much as they can. For this reason there isno guarantee that a translation is up to date. If what you read in atranslation does not sound right compared to what you read in the code, pleaseinform the translation maintainer and - if you can - check also the Englishdocumentation.

A translation is not a fork of the official documentation, thereforetranslations’ users should not find information that differs from the officialEnglish documentation. Any content addition, removal or update, must beapplied to the English documents first. Afterwards and when possible, thesame change should be applied to translations. Translations’ maintainersaccept only contributions that are merely translation related (e.g. newtranslations, updates, fixes).

Translations try to be as accurate as possible but it is not possible to mapone language directly to all other languages. Each language has its owngrammar and culture, so the translation of an English statement may need to beadapted to fit a different language. For this reason, when viewingtranslations, you may find slight differences that carry the same message butin a different form.

If you need to communicate with the Linux community but you do not feelcomfortable writing in English, you can ask the translation’s maintainersfor help.