[PATCH] add CREDITS file

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

Add a credits file of past contributors to DPDK.
There are obviously more names that should be added but
lets start this with Venky.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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 CREDITS | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CREDITS

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..021fed1c76c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+	This is at least a partial credits-file of people that have
+	contributed to the DPDK project.  It is sorted by name and
+	formatted to allow easy grepping and beautification by
+	scripts.  The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address
+	(W), and description (D)
+
+----------
+
+N: Venky Vekatesan
+E: venky.venkatesan@intel.com
+D: Original founder of DPDK project
+W: https://www.dpdk.org/about/venky/
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