The Linux Kernel
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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
  • The Linux 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
    • IOCTLs
    • IOMMU Userspace API
    • Linux Media Infrastructure userspace API
    • Netlink Handbook
      • Introduction to Netlink
    • 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
  • Translations
The Linux Kernel
  • The Linux kernel user-space API guide
  • Netlink Handbook
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Netlink Handbook¶

Netlink documentation for users.

  • Introduction to Netlink
    • Opening a socket
    • Generic Netlink
    • Advanced topics
    • Classic Netlink
    • uAPI reference
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