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 -M 30
Total patches of this release: 1860
Averagely, every person commited 4 patches
No.1	 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>	 103	
No.2	 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>	 82	
No.3	 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>	 61	
No.4	 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	 48	
No.5	 Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>	 47	
No.6	 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>	 46	
No.7	 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>	 39	
No.8	 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>	 37	
No.9	 Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>	 35	
No.10	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>	 33	
No.10	 Malli Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>	 33	
No.12	 Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>	 31	
No.13	 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>	 29	
No.13	 Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>	 29	
No.13	  <jgarzik@redhat.com>	 29	
No.16	 Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>	 28	
No.16	 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>	 28	
No.18	 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>	 25	
No.19	 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>	 24	
No.20	 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>	 20	
No.21	 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>	 18	
No.22	 Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>	 17	
No.22	 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>	 17	
No.24	 Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>	 16	
No.25	 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>	 15	
No.25	 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>	 15	
No.27	 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>	 14	
No.27	 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>	 14	
No.27	 Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>	 14	
No.30	 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>	 13	
No.30	 Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>	 13	
No.30	 John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>	 13