From ed6579002548f3d9c00380e2aeaa8305d3ed8fc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 13:53:11 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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.*