diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+Dan Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
+
+Your name should go here, just sent patches...
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+Read the README file for how to install udev.