On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 08:43:53AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:38:32 -0500
Sasha Levin <[email protected]> escreveu:
+Quick Start
+-----------
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
+* Report a bug: See Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
Perhaps you might add a link to Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst
as well, although it is already there at reporting-issues.rst.
I prefer to leave it in the security researcher section below to keep the quick
start "quick" :)
+* Get the latest kernel: https://kernel.org
+* Build the kernel: See
Documentation/admin-guide/quickly-build-trimmed-linux.rst
+* Join the community: https://lore.kernel.org/
-There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
-several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
+Essential Documentation
+-----------------------
-Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
-requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
-the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
+All users should be familiar with:
+
+* Building requirements: Documentation/process/changes.rst
+* Code of Conduct: Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
+* License: COPYING (GPLv2)
Hmm... "GPLv2" doesn't fit all, as it is GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note,
plus, as stated on COPYING:
Heh, I wanted to avoid sounding too SPDX-y and stole it from
Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst:
Code is contributed to the Linux kernel under a number of licenses, but
all code must be compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public
License
(GPLv2), which is the license covering the kernel distribution as a
whole.
As we don't want to repeat the entire COPYING text here, better
to just point to the file, e.g.
License: see COPYING
This makes sense.
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Thanks,
Sasha
