Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.23...
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./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.23 -M 30
Total patches of this release: 6657
Averagely, every person commited 6 patches
No.1	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>	 154	
No.2	 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>	 141	
No.3	 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	 125	
No.4	 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>	 119	
No.5	 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>	 111	
No.6	 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>	 106	
No.7	 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>	 103	
No.8	 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>	 96	
No.9	 Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>	 93	
No.10	 FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>	 81	
No.11	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>	 75	
No.12	 Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>	 74	
No.13	 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>	 71	
No.14	 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>	 64	
No.15	 Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>	 63	
No.16	 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>	 59	
No.17	 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>	 56	
No.17	 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>	 56	
No.19	 Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>	 55	
No.20	 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>	 54	
No.21	 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>	 52	
No.21	 Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>	 52	
No.21	 Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>	 52	
No.24	 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>	 49	
No.25	 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>	 48	
No.25	 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>	 48	
No.25	 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>	 48	
No.28	 Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>	 46	
No.29	 Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>	 44	
No.29	 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>	 44