Commit ed6579002548 for kernel
commit ed6579002548f3d9c00380e2aeaa8305d3ed8fc5
Author: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: Tue Mar 3 13:53:11 2026 -0800
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 <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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-12-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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.*