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The LICENSE is ISC and some original code came from me based
on the compat project, I have relicensed that stuff to ISC
and contributed here. The rest is the QCA alx driver which
is all ISC licensed.

The documentation for submitting patches and using the
Signed-off-by is added. This follows the Linux kernel's
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1. We don't yet have
a mailing list but what we do have is commitment to support
this by the QCA alx development team. Adrian has offered
to help address the BSD target support.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
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Copyright (c) 2012, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Copyright (c) 2012 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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This will copy over all code needed to build the driver for Linux.

# Contributions

Contributions to compat follow the same mechanisms as used in the Linux kernel,
this means you should provide as Singed-off-by tag as documented on the
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1.

# Submitting patches

compat and compat-drivers contributions follow the contribution model
implemented by the Linux kernel. Patches or pull requests for compat and
compat-drivers must have be signed-offed. If you don't sign off on them they
will not accepted. This means adding a line that says "Signed-off-by: Name
email" at the end of each commit, indicating that you wrote the code and have
the right to pass it on as an open source patch. For exact definition of what
the Signed-off-by tag is you can read the definition of the "Developer's
Certificate of Origin 1.1", which you can read here:

http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html

You can send patches as follows:

* To: mcgrof@kernel.org, adrian@freebsd.org
* Cc: nic-devel@qualcomm.com
* Subject: alx: foo

# BSD support

TBD

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