Start extracting author line from /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.24...
Restored the author line to file ./tmp_author.

./patch_sta /root/tools/ChangeLog-2.6.24 -M 30
Total patches of this release: 9833
Averagely, every person commited 9 patches
No.1	 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>	 362	
No.2	 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>	 205	
No.3	 Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>	 194	
No.4	 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>	 177	
No.5	 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>	 148	
No.6	 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>	 147	
No.7	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>	 144	
No.8	 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>	 132	
No.9	 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>	 129	
No.10	 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>	 120	
No.11	 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>	 115	
No.12	 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	 112	
No.13	 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>	 108	
No.14	 Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>	 97	
No.15	 Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>	 91	
No.16	 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>	 90	
No.16	 Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>	 90	
No.16	 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>	 90	
No.16	 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>	 90	
No.20	 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>	 86	
No.21	 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>	 79	
No.22	 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>	 75	
No.22	 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	 75	
No.24	 Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>	 74	
No.24	 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>	 74	
No.26	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>	 73	
No.26	 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>	 73	
No.26	 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>	 73	
No.29	 Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>	 70	
No.29	 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>	 70