What Is Staging in Linux?
Contents What the Linux Staging Tree Is: the Linux Staging Tree (Or Just “Staging” from Now On) Is Used to Hold Stand-Alone[1] Drivers and Filesystems That Are...
What the Linux Staging tree is: The Linux Staging tree (or just “staging” from now on) is used to hold stand-alone[1] drivers and filesystems that are not ready to be merged into the main portion of the Linux kernel tree at this point in time for various technical reasons.
What are staging drivers?
Driver staging is performed under the LocalSystem security context. Adding driver packages to the driver store requires administrative privileges on the system. During driver staging, driver files are verified, copied to the store, and indexed for quick retrieval, but they are not installed on the system.
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How does Linux kernel development work?
The kernel source tree contains the drivers/staging/ directory, where many sub-directories for drivers or filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree live. They remain in drivers/staging while they still need more work; once complete, they can be moved into the kernel proper.
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