From f9b5bf12eb65e1e708a883a1e24712e81ed2f340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 01/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Johan Hedberg from Bluetooth subsystem We have not seen emails or tags from Johan in over 5 years, and there is no recent mailing list activity. Marcel Holtmann hasn't provided any tags in the Bluetooth subsystem in over 5 years, but he is active on the Bluetooth mailing list, providing informal review. Luiz Augusto von Dentz is very active, handling essentially all commits and reviews (12% coverage, but Luiz is the sole active committer). Subsystem BLUETOOTH SUBSYSTEM Changes 50 / 411 (12%) Last activity: 2026-02-23 Marcel Holtmann : Johan Hedberg : Luiz Augusto von Dentz : Author 138d7eca445e 2026-02-23 00:00:00 164 Committer 138d7eca445e 2026-02-23 00:00:00 361 Tags 138d7eca445e 2026-02-23 00:00:00 362 Top reviewers: [15]: pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de [8]: keescook@chromium.org [5]: willemb@google.com [4]: horms@kernel.org [3]: kuniyu@amazon.com [3]: luiz.von.dentz@intel.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Johan Hedberg Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index bee85351120e..4eb755b0a0d1 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4615,7 +4615,6 @@ F: drivers/bluetooth/ BLUETOOTH SUBSYSTEM M: Marcel Holtmann -M: Johan Hedberg M: Luiz Augusto von Dentz L: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org S: Supported From 80f8a19fe7cf5b1b5d541c7aaa37aa9d7653bda5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 02/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Manish Chopra from QLogic QL4xxx (now orphan) We have not seen tags from Manish for the QL4xxx driver in over 5 years, and there is no mailing list activity since Oct 2023. There has been no maintainer activity in this subsystem at all. Since there is no other maintainer for this driver it becomes an Orphan. Subsystem QLOGIC QL4xxx ETHERNET DRIVER Changes 40 / 74 (54%) (No activity) Top reviewers: [30]: horms@kernel.org [2]: jiri@nvidia.com [2]: shannon.nelson@amd.com [1]: saeedm@nvidia.com [1]: aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com [1]: kory.maincent@bootlin.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Manish Chopra Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-3-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4eb755b0a0d1..a83af9a89141 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -21451,9 +21451,8 @@ S: Supported F: drivers/scsi/qedi/ QLOGIC QL4xxx ETHERNET DRIVER -M: Manish Chopra L: netdev@vger.kernel.org -S: Maintained +S: Orphan F: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/ F: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/ F: include/linux/qed/ From e07f796a86b2f0fda976268a08c321579022fcbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 03/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Jerin Jacob from Marvell OcteonTX2 We have not seen tags from Jerin for OcteonTX2 in over 5 years. Recent lore activity is in DPDK (non-kernel), not Linux. Sunil, Linu, Geetha, hariprasad, and Subbaraya are active, though the review coverage isn't great (38%). Subsystem MARVELL OCTEONTX2 RVU ADMIN FUNCTION DRIVER Changes 53 / 138 (38%) Last activity: 2026-02-18 Sunil Goutham : Author fc1b2901e0fe 2024-03-08 00:00:00 1 Tags 70f8986ecef1 2025-06-16 00:00:00 9 Linu Cherian : Author a861e5809f3e 2025-10-30 00:00:00 7 Tags a861e5809f3e 2025-10-30 00:00:00 7 Geetha sowjanya : Author 70e9a5760abf 2026-01-29 00:00:00 16 Tags 70e9a5760abf 2026-01-29 00:00:00 20 Jerin Jacob : hariprasad : Author 45be47bf5d7d 2026-02-18 00:00:00 22 Tags 45be47bf5d7d 2026-02-18 00:00:00 25 Subbaraya Sundeep : Author 47a1208776d7 2025-10-30 00:00:00 20 Tags 47a1208776d7 2025-10-30 00:00:00 30 Top reviewers: [36]: horms@kernel.org [4]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com [4]: kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com [3]: vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev [2]: shaojijie@huawei.com [2]: jiri@nvidia.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Jerin Jacob Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-4-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a83af9a89141..de0f5a38b525 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -15469,7 +15469,6 @@ MARVELL OCTEONTX2 RVU ADMIN FUNCTION DRIVER M: Sunil Goutham M: Linu Cherian M: Geetha sowjanya -M: Jerin Jacob M: hariprasad M: Subbaraya Sundeep L: netdev@vger.kernel.org From 77f72ef58fb849cbe39fd69a20f9ae5076cd442b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:05 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 04/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Sean Wang from MediaTek Ethernet and switch We have not seen tags from Sean in over 5 years, with only one mailing list post since 2024. Felix and Lorenzo are active for the Ethernet driver, and Chester, Daniel and DENG Qingfang are active for the switch driver. Subsystem MEDIATEK ETHERNET DRIVER Changes 55 / 113 (48%) Last activity: 2025-10-12 Felix Fietkau : Author d4736737110f 2025-09-02 00:00:00 3 Tags d4736737110f 2025-09-02 00:00:00 4 Sean Wang : Lorenzo Bianconi : Author 96326447d466 2025-08-13 00:00:00 35 Tags 3abc0e55ea1f 2025-10-12 00:00:00 40 Top reviewers: [26]: horms@kernel.org [5]: andrew@lunn.ch [4]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com [3]: shannon.nelson@amd.com [3]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Sean Wang Subsystem MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER Changes 26 / 70 (37%) Last activity: 2025-12-01 Chester A. Unal : Tags 585943b7ad30 2025-12-01 00:00:00 7 Daniel Golle : Author 497041d76301 2025-04-23 00:00:00 2 Tags 3b87e60d2131 2025-12-01 00:00:00 14 DENG Qingfang : Sean Wang : Top reviewers: [4]: andrew@lunn.ch [4]: florian.fainelli@broadcom.com [4]: arinc.unal@arinc9.com [2]: olteanv@gmail.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Sean Wang Acked-by: Chester A. Unal Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-6-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index de0f5a38b525..706fb325bc67 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -16157,7 +16157,6 @@ F: drivers/dma/mediatek/ MEDIATEK ETHERNET DRIVER M: Felix Fietkau -M: Sean Wang M: Lorenzo Bianconi L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained @@ -16351,7 +16350,6 @@ MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER M: Chester A. Unal M: Daniel Golle M: DENG Qingfang -M: Sean Wang L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/net/dsa/mt7530-mdio.c From 593cdf14523bfb837b947012cdc6545a53ea67b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 05/10] MAINTAINERS: remove DENG Qingfang from MediaTek switch We have not seen tags from DENG Qingfang for the MediaTek switch driver in over 5 years. He is active upstream with PPP/PPPoE patches in net-next. Chester and Daniel are active. Subsystem MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER Changes 26 / 70 (37%) Last activity: 2025-12-01 Chester A. Unal : Tags 585943b7ad30 2025-12-01 00:00:00 7 Daniel Golle : Author 497041d76301 2025-04-23 00:00:00 2 Tags 3b87e60d2131 2025-12-01 00:00:00 14 DENG Qingfang : Sean Wang : Top reviewers: [4]: andrew@lunn.ch [4]: florian.fainelli@broadcom.com [4]: arinc.unal@arinc9.com [2]: olteanv@gmail.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER DENG Qingfang Acked-by: Chester A. Unal Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-7-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 706fb325bc67..49bf6c8da74c 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -16349,7 +16349,6 @@ F: include/soc/mediatek/smi.h MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER M: Chester A. Unal M: Daniel Golle -M: DENG Qingfang L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/net/dsa/mt7530-mdio.c From 34f49454b25cd2e532f137174ef59b778f1a09f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 06/10] MAINTAINERS: replace Clark Wang with Frank Li for Freescale FEC We have not seen tags from Clark for FEC in over 5 years. He has some limited recent activity on the mailing list in other NXP subsystems (stmmac, phy). Wei Fang and Shenwei Wang are active, with decent review coverage (61%). Frank Li has been reviewing code actively more recenty, let's make it official. Subsystem FREESCALE IMX / MXC FEC DRIVER Changes 57 / 92 (61%) Last activity: 2026-02-10 Wei Fang : Author 25eb3058eb70 2026-02-10 00:00:00 33 Tags 25eb3058eb70 2026-02-10 00:00:00 61 Shenwei Wang : Author d466c16026e9 2025-09-14 00:00:00 6 Tags d466c16026e9 2025-09-14 00:00:00 6 Clark Wang : Top reviewers: [23]: Frank.Li@nxp.com [17]: andrew@lunn.ch [4]: csokas.bence@prolan.hu [3]: horms@kernel.org [2]: maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Clark Wang Reviewed-by: Wei Fang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-8-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 49bf6c8da74c..b21c87332d14 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -10167,8 +10167,8 @@ F: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c FREESCALE IMX / MXC FEC DRIVER M: Wei Fang +R: Frank Li R: Shenwei Wang -R: Clark Wang L: imx@lists.linux.dev L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained From 60da2d2752ac4513fc3a91a0558dfd8176d2313f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 07/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Jonathan Lemon from OpenCompute PTP We have not seen emails or tags from Jonathan in over 5 years, and there is no recent mailing list activity. Vadim Fedorenko is active. Subsystem OPENCOMPUTE PTP CLOCK DRIVER Changes 49 / 130 (37%) Last activity: 2025-11-25 Jonathan Lemon : Vadim Fedorenko : Author d3ca2ef0c915 2025-09-19 00:00:00 5 Tags 648282e2d1e5 2025-11-25 00:00:00 20 Top reviewers: [7]: horms@kernel.org [4]: jiri@nvidia.com [3]: richardcochran@gmail.com [2]: aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Jonathan Lemon Add Jonathan to CREDITS as the initial author of ptp_ocp. Acked-by: Vadim Fedorenko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-9-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- CREDITS | 4 ++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index d74c8b2b7ed3..fb9b4dc193a0 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -2415,6 +2415,10 @@ S: Am Muehlenweg 38 S: D53424 Remagen S: Germany +N: Jonathan Lemon +E: jonathan.lemon@gmail.com +D: OpenCompute PTP clock driver (ptp_ocp) + N: Colin Leroy E: colin@colino.net W: http://www.geekounet.org/ diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index b21c87332d14..d63fe814b750 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -19803,7 +19803,6 @@ F: arch/*/boot/dts/ F: include/dt-bindings/ OPENCOMPUTE PTP CLOCK DRIVER -M: Jonathan Lemon M: Vadim Fedorenko L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained From 9ede3e910f088fb3ffec0ed821f0b03951000d23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 08/10] MAINTAINERS: replace Taras Chornyi with Elad Nachman for Marvell Prestera We have not seen emails or tags from Taras in over 5 years, and there is no recent mailing list activity. Elad Nachman has been providing reviews in the last couple of years and is the top reviewer for this subsystem. Subsystem MARVELL PRESTERA ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER Changes 39 / 157 (24%) (No activity) Top reviewers: [8]: enachman@marvell.com [6]: horms@kernel.org [4]: idosch@nvidia.com [3]: andrew@lunn.ch [3]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com [3]: jiri@nvidia.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Taras Chornyi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-10-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index d63fe814b750..497822aac6aa 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -15483,7 +15483,7 @@ S: Supported F: drivers/perf/marvell_pem_pmu.c MARVELL PRESTERA ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER -M: Taras Chornyi +M: Elad Nachman S: Supported W: https://github.com/Marvell-switching/switchdev-prestera F: drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/ From 4d37e68c46d15beb4af782b19d7f1b382316776c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 09/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Claudiu Manoil and Alexandre Belloni from Ocelot switch We have not seen tags from Claudiu for the Ocelot switch driver in over 5 years. He is active upstream in other NXP subsystems (ENETC, gianfar), with 46 emails on lore since 2024. We have not seen tags from Alexandre for the Ocelot switch driver in over 5 years. He is very active upstream in other subsystems (RTC, I3C, Atmel/Microchip SoC), with over 1,200 emails on lore since 2024. Vladimir Oltean is active. Subsystem OCELOT ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER Changes 180 / 494 (36%) Last activity: 2026-02-12 Vladimir Oltean : Author c22ba07c827f 2026-02-10 00:00:00 33 Tags 026f6513c588 2026-02-12 00:00:00 39 Claudiu Manoil : Alexandre Belloni : Top reviewers: [49]: f.fainelli@gmail.com [19]: horms@kernel.org [10]: richardcochran@gmail.com [9]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com [8]: colin.foster@in-advantage.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Claudiu Manoil Acked-by: Claudiu Manoil Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-11-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- MAINTAINERS | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 497822aac6aa..d050d756beec 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -19216,8 +19216,6 @@ F: tools/objtool/ OCELOT ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER M: Vladimir Oltean -M: Claudiu Manoil -M: Alexandre Belloni M: UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Supported From ed6579002548f3d9c00380e2aeaa8305d3ed8fc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:11 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 10/10] MAINTAINERS: remove Thomas Falcon from IBM ibmvnic We have not seen emails or tags from Thomas's IBM address (tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com) in over 5 years. Looks like Thomas is active in perf tooling at Intel (thomas.falcon@intel.com). Subsystem IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver Changes 49 / 134 (36%) Last activity: 2025-08-26 Haren Myneni : Tags 3c14917953a5 2025-08-26 00:00:00 2 Rick Lindsley : Nick Child : Author d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 14 Tags d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 16 Thomas Falcon : Top reviewers: [22]: drt@linux.ibm.com [13]: horms@kernel.org [9]: ricklind@linux.vnet.ibm.com [3]: davemarq@linux.ibm.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Thomas Falcon Move Thomas to CREDITS as the initial author of ibmvnic. Acked-by: Thomas Falcon Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-12-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- CREDITS | 4 ++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index fb9b4dc193a0..9091bac3d2da 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -1242,6 +1242,10 @@ N: Veaceslav Falico E: vfalico@gmail.com D: Co-maintainer and co-author of the network bonding driver. +N: Thomas Falcon +E: tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com +D: Initial author of the IBM ibmvnic network driver + N: János Farkas E: chexum@shadow.banki.hu D: romfs, various (mostly networking) fixes diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index d050d756beec..3fcb17815e00 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -12212,7 +12212,6 @@ IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver M: Haren Myneni M: Rick Lindsley R: Nick Child -R: Thomas Falcon L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.*