Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.18...
Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author.

./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.18 -M 30
Total patches of this release: 6322
Averagely, every person commited 7 patches
No.1	 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>	 206	
No.2	 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>	 188	
No.3	 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	 153	
No.4	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>	 143	
No.5	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>	 140	
No.6	 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>	 137	
No.7	 Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>	 112	
No.8	 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>	 92	
No.9	 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>	 88	
No.10	 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>	 81	
No.11	 Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>	 70	
No.12	 Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>	 65	
No.13	 Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>	 62	
No.14	 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>	 59	
No.14	 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>	 59	
No.16	 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>	 58	
No.17	 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>	 56	
No.17	 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>	 56	
No.19	 Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>	 55	
No.19	 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>	 55	
No.21	 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>	 54	
No.22	 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>	 50	
No.23	 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>	 49	
No.24	 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>	 48	
No.24	 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>	 48	
No.24	 Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>	 48	
No.24	 Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>	 48	
No.24	 Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>	 48	
No.29	 Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>	 47	
No.30	 Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>	 45