.. The Linux Kernel documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain the root `toctree` directive. The Linux Kernel documentation ============================== This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress; that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if you want to help out. Licensing documentation ----------------------- The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code (GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source tree, as well as links to the full license text. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 process/license-rules.rst User-oriented documentation --------------------------- The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 admin-guide/index Application-developer documentation ----------------------------------- The user-space API manual gathers together documents describing aspects of the kernel interface as seen by application developers. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 userspace-api/index Introduction to kernel development ---------------------------------- These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel. The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community, knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes merged much easier. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 process/index dev-tools/index doc-guide/index kernel-hacking/index maintainer/index Kernel API documentation ------------------------ These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is needed). .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 driver-api/index core-api/index media/index networking/index input/index gpu/index security/index sound/index crypto/index filesystems/index Architecture-specific documentation ----------------------------------- These books provide programming details about architecture-specific implementation. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 sh/index Korean translations ------------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 translations/ko_KR/index Chinese translations -------------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 translations/zh_CN/index Japanese translations --------------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 translations/ja_JP/index Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex`