Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.23...
Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author.

./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.23 -C 30
Total patches of this release: 6657
Averagely, every company commited 13 patches
No.1	 Redhat	 650	
No.2	 Unkown	 430	
No.3	 Novell	 427	
No.4	 IBM	 383	
No.5	 INTEL	 208	
No.6	 MIPS	 158	
No.7	 ORACLE	 157	
No.8	 Linux.Org	 135	
No.9	 Netapp	 119	
No.10	 GOOGLE	 116	
No.11	 linux-foundation	 114	
No.12	 linux-sh.org	 111	
No.13	 Infradead	 100	
No.14	 trash.net	 96	
No.15	 Movial	 93	
No.16	 NTT	 88	
No.17	 SGI	 83	
No.18	 SONY	 75	
No.19	 qumranet.com	 74	
No.20	 MontaVista	 71	
No.21	 qlogic.com	 70	
No.22	 gmx.de	 69	
No.23	 crashing.org	 55	
No.24	 Analog	 54	
No.24	 pacbell.net	 54	
No.26	 rowland.harvard.edu	 52	
No.26	 mba.ocn.ne.jp	 52	
No.28	 CERN	 49	
No.29	 mindspring.com	 48	
No.29	 xmission.com	 48