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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:52:43 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Kernel official involvement
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:49:02 +1000
Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au> wrote:

> I am just wondering how does anyone get further involved with Linux 
> kernel development? How do you get selected to be able to push through 
> patches etc. to the official kernel? Who authorizes who to be able to do so?

Please see Documentation/HOWTO and the contents of
Documentation/development-process in the kernel source tree; that
should tell you everything you need to know.

Thanks,

jon


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