[PATCH v2] add CREDITS file

[Stephen Hemminger]

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 at networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
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v2 - reword opening, fix spelling

 CREDITS | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CREDITS

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c068d91bf57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+This file lists some of the significant past contributors to the DPDK.
+It is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy searching use by scripts.
+The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address (W), and description (D).
+
+----------
+
+N: Venky Venkatesan
+D: Original founder of DPDK project
+W: https://www.dpdk.org/about/venky/
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