Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.12...
Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author.

./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.12 -C 30
Total patches of this release: 1860
Averagely, every company commited 8 patches
No.1	 Redhat	 182	
No.2	 Novell	 133	
No.3	 Linux.Org	 130	
No.4	 INTEL	 119	
No.5	 IBM	 107	
No.6	 ppc970.osdl.org	 103	
No.7	 SGI	 69	
No.8	 Unkown	 49	
No.9	 linuxtv.org	 47	
No.10	 samba.org	 36	
No.11	 Movial	 35	
No.12	 GOOGLE	 34	
No.12	 austin.rr.com	 34	
No.14	 topspin.com	 30	
No.15	 broadcom.com	 29	
No.16	 Infradead	 28	
No.17	 HP	 24	
No.17	 org.rmk.(none)	 24	
No.19	 pacbell.net	 18	
No.20	 crashing.org	 17	
No.20	 ucw.cz	 17	
No.22	 coraid.com	 16	
No.22	 linux-foundation	 16	
No.24	 suug.ch	 14	
No.24	 trash.net	 14	
No.24	 fujitsu-siemens.com	 14	
No.27	 veritas.com	 13	
No.27	 tuxdriver.com	 13	
No.29	 dif.dk	 12	
No.29	 telia.com	 12