The Linux Kernel
6.5.0-rc4
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A guide to the Kernel Development Process
Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel
Code of conduct
Kernel Maintainer Handbook
All development-process docs
Core API Documentation
Driver implementer's API guide
Kernel subsystem documentation
Locking in the kernel
Linux kernel licensing rules
How to write kernel documentation
Development tools for the kernel
Kernel Testing Guide
Kernel Hacking Guides
Linux Tracing Technologies
fault-injection
Kernel Livepatching
Rust
The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
The kernel build system
Reporting issues
User-space tools
The Linux kernel user-space API guide
No New Privileges Flag
Seccomp BPF (SECure COMPuting with filters)
Landlock: unprivileged access control
unshare system call
Speculation Control
OpenCAPI (Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
eBPF Userspace API
Linux-specific ELF idiosyncrasies
IOCTLs
IOMMU Userspace API
IOMMUFD
Linux Media Infrastructure userspace API
Netlink Handbook
Introduction to Netlink
Using Netlink protocol specifications
Netlink protocol specifications (in YAML)
Netlink spec C code generation
Netlink specification support for legacy Generic Netlink families
Platform Profile Selection (e.g. /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile)
VDUSE - "vDPA Device in Userspace"
futex2
The Linux kernel firmware guide
Open Firmware and Devicetree
CPU Architectures
Unsorted Documentation
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Netlink Handbook
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Netlink documentation for users.
Introduction to Netlink
Opening a socket
Generic Netlink
Advanced topics
Classic Netlink
uAPI reference
Using Netlink protocol specifications
Simple CLI
Generating kernel code
YNL lib
Netlink protocol specifications (in YAML)
Compatibility levels
Schema structure
genetlink
Attribute types
Netlink spec C code generation
Globals
Definitions
Attributes
Operations
Multicast groups
Code generation
Netlink specification support for legacy Generic Netlink families
Specification (defined)
Operations
Other quirks (todo)
See also
Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst
.