Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.17...
Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author.

./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.17 -M 30
Total patches of this release: 5727
Averagely, every person commited 7 patches
No.1	 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	 289	
No.2	 Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>	 145	
No.3	 akpm@osdl.org <akpm@linux-foundation.org>	 142	
No.4	 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>	 120	
No.5	 Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>	 101	
No.6	 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>	 100	
No.7	 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>	 95	
No.8	 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>	 91	
No.9	 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>	 80	
No.10	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>	 79	
No.11	 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>	 76	
No.12	 Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>	 74	
No.13	 Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>	 72	
No.14	 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>	 60	
No.15	 Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>	 58	
No.15	 Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>	 58	
No.17	 Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>	 57	
No.18	 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>	 56	
No.19	 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>	 54	
No.19	 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>	 54	
No.21	 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>	 51	
No.22	 Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>	 48	
No.22	 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>	 48	
No.24	 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>	 46	
No.24	 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>	 46	
No.26	 Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>	 45	
No.27	 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>	 44	
No.27	 Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>	 44	
No.29	 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>	 43	
No.30	 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>	 42	
No.30	 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>	 42