[PATCH net 00/11] MAINTAINERS: annual cleanup of inactive maintainers

[PATCH net 00/11] MAINTAINERS: annual cleanup of inactive maintainers

[Jakub Kicinski]

Annual cleanup of inactive maintainers under networking.
The goal is to make sure MAINTAINERS reflect reality for
code which is relatively actively changed (at least 70 commits
in the last 2 years or at least 120 commits in the last 5 years).

Those who either:
 - were the initial author / "upstreamer" of the driver; or
 - authored at least 1/3rd of the exiting code base (per git blame); or
 - authored at least 25% of commits before becoming inactive
are moved to CREDITS.

The discovery of inactive maintainers was done using gitdm tools,
with a bunch of ad-hoc scripts on top to do the rest. I tried to
double check the results but this is mostly a scripted cleanup
so please report inaccuracies if any.

Jakub Kicinski (11):
  MAINTAINERS: remove Johan Hedberg from Bluetooth subsystem
  MAINTAINERS: remove Manish Chopra from QLogic QL4xxx (now orphan)
  MAINTAINERS: remove Jerin Jacob from Marvell OcteonTX2
  MAINTAINERS: remove Salil Mehta from HiSilicon network drivers
  MAINTAINERS: remove Sean Wang from MediaTek Ethernet and switch
  MAINTAINERS: remove DENG Qingfang from MediaTek switch
  MAINTAINERS: replace Clark Wang with Frank Li for Freescale FEC
  MAINTAINERS: remove Jonathan Lemon from OpenCompute PTP
  MAINTAINERS: replace Taras Chornyi with Elad Nachman for Marvell
    Prestera
  MAINTAINERS: remove Claudiu Manoil and Alexandre Belloni from Ocelot
    switch
  MAINTAINERS: remove Thomas Falcon from IBM ibmvnic

 MAINTAINERS | 18 +++---------------
 CREDITS     | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 01/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Johan Hedberg from Bluetooth subsystem

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <marcel@holtmann.org>:
  Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>:
  Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>:
    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 <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: marcel@holtmann.org
Cc: johan.hedberg@gmail.com
Cc: luiz.dentz@gmail.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2265e2c9bfbe..0c9b69df9204 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4617,7 +4617,6 @@ F:	drivers/bluetooth/
 
 BLUETOOTH SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
-M:	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
 M:	Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
 L:	linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 02/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Manish Chopra from QLogic QL4xxx (now orphan)

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <manishc@marvell.com>

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: manishc@marvell.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 0c9b69df9204..c939a76b9a2b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -21455,9 +21455,8 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/scsi/qedi/
 
 QLOGIC QL4xxx ETHERNET DRIVER
-M:	Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
 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/
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 03/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Jerin Jacob from Marvell OcteonTX2

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <sgoutham@marvell.com>:
    Author fc1b2901e0fe 2024-03-08 00:00:00 1
    Tags 70f8986ecef1 2025-06-16 00:00:00 9
  Linu Cherian <lcherian@marvell.com>:
    Author a861e5809f3e 2025-10-30 00:00:00 7
    Tags a861e5809f3e 2025-10-30 00:00:00 7
  Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com>:
    Author 70e9a5760abf 2026-01-29 00:00:00 16
    Tags 70e9a5760abf 2026-01-29 00:00:00 20
  Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>:
  hariprasad <hkelam@marvell.com>:
    Author 45be47bf5d7d 2026-02-18 00:00:00 22
    Tags 45be47bf5d7d 2026-02-18 00:00:00 25
  Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>:
    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 <jerinj@marvell.com>

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: sgoutham@marvell.com
Cc: lcherian@marvell.com
Cc: gakula@marvell.com
Cc: jerinj@marvell.com
Cc: hkelam@marvell.com
Cc: sbhatta@marvell.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c939a76b9a2b..49eb81ec3709 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15473,7 +15473,6 @@ MARVELL OCTEONTX2 RVU ADMIN FUNCTION DRIVER
 M:	Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
 M:	Linu Cherian <lcherian@marvell.com>
 M:	Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com>
-M:	Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
 M:	hariprasad <hkelam@marvell.com>
 M:	Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 04/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Salil Mehta from HiSilicon network drivers

[Jakub Kicinski]

We have not seen tags from Salil for HiSilicon network drivers
in over 5 years. He is active upstream in other subsystems
(KVM/ARM64 vCPU hotplug). Jian Shen and Jijie Shao are active
in HNS3, and the review coverage is good (55%).

Subsystem HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM 3 DRIVER (HNS3)
  Changes 69 / 125 (55%)
  Last activity: 2026-02-06
  Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>:
    Author 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 22
    Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 26
  Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>:
  Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>:
    Author 6a0fc0ea61bd 2026-01-27 00:00:00 19
    Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 97
  Top reviewers:
    [30]: horms@kernel.org
    [12]: andrew@lunn.ch
    [10]: arnd@arndb.de
    [5]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com
    [4]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com
  INACTIVE MAINTAINER Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>

Subsystem HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
  Changes 108 / 200 (54%)
  Last activity: 2026-02-06
  Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>:
    Author 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 22
    Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 26
  Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>:
  Top reviewers:
    [52]: horms@kernel.org
    [17]: shaojijie@huawei.com
    [16]: andrew@lunn.ch
    [10]: arnd@arndb.de
    [6]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com
    [6]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com
  INACTIVE MAINTAINER Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>

Add Salil to CREDITS as the initial author of HNS3.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: shenjian15@huawei.com
Cc: salil.mehta@huawei.com
Cc: shaojijie@huawei.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 --
 CREDITS     | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 49eb81ec3709..b9b8a7695ddb 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -11527,7 +11527,6 @@ F:	drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c
 
 HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM 3 DRIVER (HNS3)
 M:	Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
-M:	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
 M:	Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
@@ -11542,7 +11541,6 @@ F:	drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hibmcge/
 
 HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
 M:	Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
-M:	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 W:	http://www.hisilicon.com
diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index d74c8b2b7ed3..98aaf196567a 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -2770,6 +2770,10 @@ E: merker@linuxtag.org
 D: DECstation framebuffer drivers
 S: Germany
 
+N: Salil Mehta
+E: salil.mehta@huawei.com
+D: Upstreaming of the HiSilicon HNS3 network driver
+
 N: Michael Meskes
 E: meskes@debian.org
 P: 1024/04B6E8F5 6C 77 33 CA CC D6 22 03  AB AB 15 A3 AE AD 39 7D
-- 
2.53.0

Re: [PATCH net 04/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Salil Mehta from HiSilicon network drivers

[Jijie Shao]

on 2026/3/4 5:53, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We have not seen tags from Salil for HiSilicon network drivers
> in over 5 years. He is active upstream in other subsystems
> (KVM/ARM64 vCPU hotplug). Jian Shen and Jijie Shao are active
> in HNS3, and the review coverage is good (55%).

Hi Jakub,

Thanks for the update. I would like to clarify that Salil is a co-author of HNS3/HNS driver
and still remains our active MAINTAINER.

Based in our Cambridge, UK office, Salil has been away for extended periods recently due to a challenging personal situation.
This explains his recent lack of tags or direct networking contributions; he was outside the UK for much of this time
and had limited access to our Cambridge hardware labs. However, he continued to contribute to other areas like virtualization
where hardware dependency (especially the extensive hardware setup required for networking) was not an factor.

Despite his limited availability, he has been reviewing code in the background and working with our HQ team on HNS3 enhancements,
including performance improvements and XDP support. Many of these patches are currently pending and will be submitted soon.
We expect him to return to full capacity in mid-March, and his networking expertise remains deeply valued by Huawei.

We request that you keep him on the MAINTAINER list so he remains in the loop for all HNS3/HNS driver communications.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,
Jijie Shao


>
> Subsystem HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM 3 DRIVER (HNS3)
>    Changes 69 / 125 (55%)
>    Last activity: 2026-02-06
>    Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>:
>      Author 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 22
>      Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 26
>    Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>:
>    Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>:
>      Author 6a0fc0ea61bd 2026-01-27 00:00:00 19
>      Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 97
>    Top reviewers:
>      [30]: horms@kernel.org
>      [12]: andrew@lunn.ch
>      [10]: arnd@arndb.de
>      [5]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com
>      [4]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com
>    INACTIVE MAINTAINER Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>
> Subsystem HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
>    Changes 108 / 200 (54%)
>    Last activity: 2026-02-06
>    Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>:
>      Author 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 22
>      Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 26
>    Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>:
>    Top reviewers:
>      [52]: horms@kernel.org
>      [17]: shaojijie@huawei.com
>      [16]: andrew@lunn.ch
>      [10]: arnd@arndb.de
>      [6]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com
>      [6]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com
>    INACTIVE MAINTAINER Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>
> Add Salil to CREDITS as the initial author of HNS3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: shenjian15@huawei.com
> Cc: salil.mehta@huawei.com
> Cc: shaojijie@huawei.com
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 2 --
>   CREDITS     | 4 ++++
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 49eb81ec3709..b9b8a7695ddb 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11527,7 +11527,6 @@ F:	drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c
>   
>   HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM 3 DRIVER (HNS3)
>   M:	Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
> -M:	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>   M:	Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
>   L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
>   S:	Maintained
> @@ -11542,7 +11541,6 @@ F:	drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hibmcge/
>   
>   HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
>   M:	Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
> -M:	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>   L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
>   S:	Maintained
>   W:	http://www.hisilicon.com
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index d74c8b2b7ed3..98aaf196567a 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -2770,6 +2770,10 @@ E: merker@linuxtag.org
>   D: DECstation framebuffer drivers
>   S: Germany
>   
> +N: Salil Mehta
> +E: salil.mehta@huawei.com
> +D: Upstreaming of the HiSilicon HNS3 network driver
> +
>   N: Michael Meskes
>   E: meskes@debian.org
>   P: 1024/04B6E8F5 6C 77 33 CA CC D6 22 03  AB AB 15 A3 AE AD 39 7D

Re: [PATCH net 04/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Salil Mehta from HiSilicon network drivers

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 20:17:36 +0800 Jijie Shao wrote:
> We expect him to return to full capacity in mid-March

Got it! Everything else you wrote is besides the point (point being 
the dereliction of upstream responsibilities). But if the situation 
was temporary I'll drop the patch.

Thanks!

[PATCH net 05/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Sean Wang from MediaTek Ethernet and switch

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <nbd@nbd.name>:
    Author d4736737110f 2025-09-02 00:00:00 3
    Tags d4736737110f 2025-09-02 00:00:00 4
  Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>:
  Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>:
    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 <sean.wang@mediatek.com>

Subsystem MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER
  Changes 26 / 70 (37%)
  Last activity: 2025-12-01
  Chester A. Unal <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>:
    Tags 585943b7ad30 2025-12-01 00:00:00 7
  Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>:
    Author 497041d76301 2025-04-23 00:00:00 2
    Tags 3b87e60d2131 2025-12-01 00:00:00 14
  DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>:
  Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>:
  Top reviewers:
    [4]: andrew@lunn.ch
    [4]: florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
    [4]: arinc.unal@arinc9.com
    [2]: olteanv@gmail.com
  INACTIVE MAINTAINER Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>

Acked-by: Chester A. Unal <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: nbd@nbd.name
Cc: sean.wang@mediatek.com
Cc: lorenzo@kernel.org
Cc: chester.a.unal@arinc9.com
Cc: daniel@makrotopia.org
Cc: dqfext@gmail.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b9b8a7695ddb..a90d106efc24 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16159,7 +16159,6 @@ F:	drivers/dma/mediatek/
 
 MEDIATEK ETHERNET DRIVER
 M:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
-M:	Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
 M:	Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
@@ -16353,7 +16352,6 @@ MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER
 M:	Chester A. Unal <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>
 M:	Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
 M:	DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
-M:	Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/dsa/mt7530-mdio.c
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 06/11] MAINTAINERS: remove DENG Qingfang from MediaTek switch

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>:
    Tags 585943b7ad30 2025-12-01 00:00:00 7
  Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>:
    Author 497041d76301 2025-04-23 00:00:00 2
    Tags 3b87e60d2131 2025-12-01 00:00:00 14
  DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>:
  Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>:
  Top reviewers:
    [4]: andrew@lunn.ch
    [4]: florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
    [4]: arinc.unal@arinc9.com
    [2]: olteanv@gmail.com
  INACTIVE MAINTAINER DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Chester A. Unal <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: chester.a.unal@arinc9.com
Cc: daniel@makrotopia.org
Cc: dqfext@gmail.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a90d106efc24..2b2d0bfd3936 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16351,7 +16351,6 @@ F:	include/soc/mediatek/smi.h
 MEDIATEK SWITCH DRIVER
 M:	Chester A. Unal <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>
 M:	Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
-M:	DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/dsa/mt7530-mdio.c
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 07/11] MAINTAINERS: replace Clark Wang with Frank Li for Freescale FEC

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <wei.fang@nxp.com>:
    Author 25eb3058eb70 2026-02-10 00:00:00 33
    Tags 25eb3058eb70 2026-02-10 00:00:00 61
  Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>:
    Author d466c16026e9 2025-09-14 00:00:00 6
    Tags d466c16026e9 2025-09-14 00:00:00 6
  Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>:
  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 <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: wei.fang@nxp.com
Cc: shenwei.wang@nxp.com
Cc: xiaoning.wang@nxp.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2b2d0bfd3936..165147562e1e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -10169,8 +10169,8 @@ F:	drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c
 
 FREESCALE IMX / MXC FEC DRIVER
 M:	Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
+R:	Frank Li <frank.li@nxp.com>
 R:	Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
-R:	Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>
 L:	imx@lists.linux.dev
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
-- 
2.53.0

RE: [PATCH net 07/11] MAINTAINERS: replace Clark Wang with Frank Li for Freescale FEC

[Wei Fang]

> 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 <wei.fang@nxp.com>:
>     Author 25eb3058eb70 2026-02-10 00:00:00 33
>     Tags 25eb3058eb70 2026-02-10 00:00:00 61
>   Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>:
>     Author d466c16026e9 2025-09-14 00:00:00 6
>     Tags d466c16026e9 2025-09-14 00:00:00 6
>   Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>:
>   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 <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>

[PATCH net 08/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Jonathan Lemon from OpenCompute PTP

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>:
  Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>:
    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 <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>

Add Jonathan to CREDITS as the initial author of ptp_ocp.

Acked-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: jonathan.lemon@gmail.com
Cc: vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 CREDITS     | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 165147562e1e..61fd624c673d 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -19805,7 +19805,6 @@ F:	arch/*/boot/dts/
 F:	include/dt-bindings/
 
 OPENCOMPUTE PTP CLOCK DRIVER
-M:	Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
 M:	Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 98aaf196567a..339712b62e99 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/
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 09/11] MAINTAINERS: replace Taras Chornyi with Elad Nachman for Marvell Prestera

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <taras.chornyi@plvision.eu>

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: taras.chornyi@plvision.eu
Cc: enachman@marvell.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 61fd624c673d..8123339e4769 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15485,7 +15485,7 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/perf/marvell_pem_pmu.c
 
 MARVELL PRESTERA ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER
-M:	Taras Chornyi <taras.chornyi@plvision.eu>
+M:	Elad Nachman <enachman@marvell.com>
 S:	Supported
 W:	https://github.com/Marvell-switching/switchdev-prestera
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 10/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Claudiu Manoil and Alexandre Belloni from Ocelot switch

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>:
    Author c22ba07c827f 2026-02-10 00:00:00 33
    Tags 026f6513c588 2026-02-12 00:00:00 39
  Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>:
  Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>:
  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 <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>

Acked-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Cc: claudiu.manoil@nxp.com
Cc: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8123339e4769..8f208f877746 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -19218,8 +19218,6 @@ F:	tools/objtool/
 
 OCELOT ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER
 M:	Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
-M:	Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>
-M:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
 M:	UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH net 11/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Thomas Falcon from IBM ibmvnic

[Jakub Kicinski]

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 <haren@linux.ibm.com>:
    Tags 3c14917953a5 2025-08-26 00:00:00 2
  Rick Lindsley <ricklind@linux.ibm.com>:
  Nick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>:
    Author d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 14
    Tags d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 16
  Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>:
  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 <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>

Move Thomas to CREDITS as the initial author of ibmvnic.

Acked-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Cc: haren@linux.ibm.com
Cc: nnac123@linux.ibm.com
Cc: tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com
Cc: thomas.falcon@intel.com
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 CREDITS     | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8f208f877746..a276b6b5aeb1 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.*
diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 339712b62e99..77f10f651c87 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
-- 
2.53.0

Re: [PATCH net 00/11] MAINTAINERS: annual cleanup of inactive maintainers

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Tue,  3 Mar 2026 13:53:00 -0800 you wrote:
> Annual cleanup of inactive maintainers under networking.
> The goal is to make sure MAINTAINERS reflect reality for
> code which is relatively actively changed (at least 70 commits
> in the last 2 years or at least 120 commits in the last 5 years).
> 
> Those who either:
>  - were the initial author / "upstreamer" of the driver; or
>  - authored at least 1/3rd of the exiting code base (per git blame); or
>  - authored at least 25% of commits before becoming inactive
> are moved to CREDITS.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,01/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Johan Hedberg from Bluetooth subsystem
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/f9b5bf12eb65
  - [net,02/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Manish Chopra from QLogic QL4xxx (now orphan)
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/80f8a19fe7cf
  - [net,03/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Jerin Jacob from Marvell OcteonTX2
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/e07f796a86b2
  - [net,04/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Salil Mehta from HiSilicon network drivers
    (no matching commit)
  - [net,05/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Sean Wang from MediaTek Ethernet and switch
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/77f72ef58fb8
  - [net,06/11] MAINTAINERS: remove DENG Qingfang from MediaTek switch
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/593cdf14523b
  - [net,07/11] MAINTAINERS: replace Clark Wang with Frank Li for Freescale FEC
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/34f49454b25c
  - [net,08/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Jonathan Lemon from OpenCompute PTP
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/60da2d2752ac
  - [net,09/11] MAINTAINERS: replace Taras Chornyi with Elad Nachman for Marvell Prestera
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/9ede3e910f08
  - [net,10/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Claudiu Manoil and Alexandre Belloni from Ocelot switch
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4d37e68c46d1
  - [net,11/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Thomas Falcon from IBM ibmvnic
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/ed6579002548

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