[PATCH] MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Remove inactive checkpatch reviewers

From: Joe Perches

Date: Thu May 07 2026 - 13:47:00 EST


Dwaipayan Ray and Lukas Bulwahn have not commented
on checkpatch in several years.

Lukas is still active on MAINTAINERS.
Create an entry in CREDITS for Dwaipayan.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
CREDITS | 4 ++++
MAINTAINERS | 2 --
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 17962bdd6dbd..102a20dbd03f 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -3368,6 +3368,10 @@ N: Anil Ravindranath
E: anil_ravindranath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
D: PMC-Sierra MaxRAID driver

+N: Dwaipayan Ray
+E: dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx
+D: checkpatch improvements
+
N: Eric S. Raymond
E: esr@xxxxxxxxxxx
W: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 882214b0e7db..8d4215476bab 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5962,8 +5962,6 @@ F: drivers/input/keyboard/charlieplex_keypad.c
CHECKPATCH
M: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
-R: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
-R: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
S: Maintained
F: scripts/checkpatch.pl