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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
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  • fault-injection
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  • 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
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    • eBPF Userspace API
    • Linux-specific ELF idiosyncrasies
    • IOCTLs
    • IOMMU Userspace API
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    • 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
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Netlink HandbookΒΆ

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
  • 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.

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