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 -M 30
Total patches of this release: 4761
Averagely, every person commited 6 patches
No.1	 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>	 238	
No.2	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>	 92	
No.2	 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>	 92	
No.4	 Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>	 87	
No.5	 Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>	 79	
No.5	 Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>	 79	
No.7	 Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>	 68	
No.8	 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>	 67	
No.9	 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>	 63	
No.10	 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>	 61	
No.11	 Alan <alan@redhat.com>	 60	
No.12	 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>	 58	
No.13	 Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>	 57	
No.14	 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>	 56	
No.15	 Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>	 53	
No.16	 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>	 52	
No.17	 Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>	 49	
No.18	 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	 48	
No.19	 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>	 44	
No.19	 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>	 44	
No.21	 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>	 43	
No.22	 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>	 41	
No.23	 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>	 40	
No.24	 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>	 39	
No.24	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>	 39	
No.24	 Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>	 39	
No.27	 Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>	 37	
No.27	 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>	 37	
No.29	 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>	 36	
No.30	 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>	 34