Kernel Maintainer Handbook

This document is the humble beginning of a manual for kernel maintainers. There is a lot yet to go here! Please feel free to propose (and write) additions to this manual.

• Feature and driver maintainers
  • Responsibilities
  • Selecting the maintainer
  • Non compliance
• Configuring Git
  • Creating commit links to lore.kernel.org
• Rebasing and merging
  • Rebasing
  • Merging
  • Finally
• Creating Pull Requests
  • Create Branch
  • Create Pull Request
  • Submit Pull Request
• Handling messy pull-request diffstats
• Maintainer Entry Profile
  • Overview
  • Submit Checklist Addendum
  • Key Cycle Dates
  • Review Cadence
  • Existing profiles
• Modifying Patches