Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.19... Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author. ./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.19 -M 30 Total patches of this release: 6681 Averagely, every person commited 7 patches No.1 Al Viro 289 No.2 Steven Whitehouse 199 No.3 Andi Kleen 163 No.4 Paul Mundt 121 No.5 Ralf Baechle 109 No.6 Jeff Garzik 98 No.7 Andrew Morton 95 No.8 Stephen Hemminger 93 No.9 Patrick McHardy 87 No.10 Takashi Iwai 83 No.10 Eric W. Biederman 83 No.12 David S. Miller 76 No.13 Alan Cox 75 No.14 Alexey Dobriyan 74 No.15 David Howells 73 No.16 Herbert Xu 64 No.17 Adrian Bunk 63 No.18 David Teigland 62 No.18 Thomas Graf 62 No.20 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 60 No.21 Alan Stern 58 No.22 NeilBrown 56 No.23 Russell King 52 No.24 Bryan O'Sullivan 50 No.25 Jean Delvare 49 No.26 Stefan Richter 45 No.27 Masahide NAKAMURA 44 No.28 Christoph Lameter 42 No.29 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 41 No.30 David Woodhouse 40 No.30 David Brownell 40