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Message-ID: <20090720160025.GA20249@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:00:25 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Cc:	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Sam Ramji <sramji@...rosoft.com>,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [patch 00/54] [Announce] Microsoft Hyper-V drivers for Linux

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.

The code should be showing up in the linux-next tree soon, as the
patches are now in my public tree.

If anyone has any questions about this code, please let me and Hank know
about it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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