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-#
-# Even with git, we don't always have name translations.
-# So have an email->real name table to translate the
-# (hopefully few) missing names
-#
-# repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
-#
-Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
-Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
-Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
-Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
-David Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>
-Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
-Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
-Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
-Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
-Felix Moeller <felix@derklecks.de>
-Frank Zago <fzago@systemfabricworks.com>
-Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)>
-James Bottomley <jejb@titanic.il.steeleye.com>
-Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pretzel.yyz.us>
-Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
-Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
-Mitesh shah <mshah@teja.com>
-Morten Welinder <terra@gnome.org>
-Morten Welinder <welinder@anemone.rentec.com>
-Morten Welinder <welinder@darter.rentec.com>
-Morten Welinder <welinder@troll.com>
-Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
-Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
-Peter A Jonsson <pj@ludd.ltu.se>
-Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
-Rudolf Marek <R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz>
-Rui Saraiva <rmps@joel.ist.utl.pt>
-Sachin P Sant <ssant@in.ibm.com>
-Santtu Hyrkk,Av(B <santtu.hyrkko@gmail.com>
-Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
-Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
-Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>