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-Patches to drm_hwcomposer are very much welcome, we really want this to be the
-universal HW composer implementation for Android and similar platforms
-So please bring on porting patches, bugfixes, improvements for documentation
-and new features.
-
-A short list of contribution guidelines:
-
-- Please submit patches formatted with git send-email/git format-patch or
-  equivalent to
-
-    dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
-
-  Please use --subject-prefix="PATCH hwc" so that drm_hwcomposer patches are easily
-  identified in the massive amount mails on dri-devel. To ensure this is always
-  done, run:
-
-    git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH hwc"
-
-- drm_hwcomposer is Apache 2.0 Licensed and we require contributions to follow the
-  developer's certificate of origin: http://developercertificate.org/
-
-- When submitting new code please follow the naming conventions documented
-  in the generated documentation. Also please make full use of all the helpers and
-  convenience macros provided by drm_hwcomposer. The below command can help you
-  with formatting of your patches:
-  git diff | clang-format-diff-3.5 -p 1 -style=file
-
-- Hardware specific changes should get tested on relevant platforms
-  before committing.
-
-Happy hacking!