Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.20... Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author. ./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.20 -l 2 Total patches of this release: 4761 Averagely, every person commited 6 patches We have a long tail: There are 417 people who committed less than 2 patch. But their contribution is about 10% of total