* Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref] [2009-07-20 09:00:25]:

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce, that after many months of discussions, Microsoft
has released their Hyper-V Linux drivers under the GPLv2.  Following
this message, will be the patches that add the drivers to the
drivers/staging/ tree, and a whole bunch of cleanups.

It's taken a long road to get here, and I'd like to thank the following
people who made this possible:
  - Steve Hemminger for the initial prodding and extreme patience
  - Hank Janssen for providing the code and working with me to get it
    into a workable and semi-mergable state.  His involvement within
    Microsoft was also invaluable.
  - Sam Ramji for his push within Microsoft to make this happen in a
    manner that works with the Linux community.
  - Novell for sponsoring my work on the Linux Driver project, without
    which, this would not have even been possible.
And there are many others both within Novell and Microsoft, who I do not
want to slight by not naming, but the list would be too long to go into.

These drivers are to enable Linux to work better when running as a guest
on top of the Hyper-V system.  There is still a lot of work to do in
getting this into "proper" mergable state, and moving it out of the
staging directory, but Hank and I will be undertaking this task.  See
the TODO file in the drivers/staging/hv/ directory if anyone wishes to
help out with this task.

What is the long term strategy to keep the sources in sync? Is there
one? Do you expect to get updates for these sources? 

-- 
	Balbir