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 <haren@linux.ibm.com>
 M:	Rick Lindsley <ricklind@linux.ibm.com>
 R:	Nick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>
-R:	Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.*