On 23/08/11 13:59, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Peter J. Pouliot<peter at pouliot.net>wrote: >>> >>> What license are these drivers covered under? >> GPL v2. >> >> The drivers are currently in staging on the mainline kernel. My goal, >> note I am not speaking for the company of I work for (SUSE), or the company >> who pays for the room I sit in (MSFT), is to help get the work our team has >> done for the last five years integrated into all linux distributions. >> > > So long as they are GPLv2, and your company/code copyright holder is willing > to provide something showing there's no danger of lawsuit/DMCA infringement > for distribution I see no issues with providing them. > > The driver source is already included in the RHEL6 kernel, in drivers/staging/hv but because it's still in staging Red Hat chose not to enable it by default. We built the drivers from the RHEL6 code but they seem badly broken: http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=165 There were a large number of patches submitted for inclusion in kernel-3.0 (still in staging) but backporting this code to RHEL6 is not trivial. As it's not enabled by default, I would guess the chances of Red Hat backporting fixes to RHEL6 are less than zero, regardless of the politics. To start with I guess we would need working code that builds on RHEL6 :-)