Reference

Tabular reference material for the Linux kernel as it appears in this repository. The pages here are intentionally short and pointer-heavy: they tell you where to look, not what to know.

Pages

• Configuration — Kconfig, .config, defconfigs, Kbuild.
• Dependencies — external dependencies, in-tree dependency graph.
• Data models — the major in-kernel structures and their relationships.

When to use what

• For build options, Configuration.
• For how subsystems link together at the source level, Data models.
• For tooling and library prerequisites, Dependencies.

Other reference material

This wiki intentionally does not duplicate the kernel's own Documentation/ tree. For:

• Kernel command-line parameters: Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
• Sysctl knobs: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/.
• Per-subsystem internals: Documentation/<subsystem>/.
• ABI guarantees: Documentation/ABI/.
• Coding-style and process: Documentation/process/.

These are authoritative; the wiki is supplementary navigation.