[PATCH mm-hotfixes] MAINTAINERS: Remove inactive checkpatch maintainers

From: Bagas Sanjaya

Date: Mon Jan 12 2026 - 05:59:58 EST


Both Dwaipayan Ray ([1]) and Andy Whitcroft ([2]) had not made any
checkpatch reviews since 2022. Move them to CREDITS.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CABJPP5CjgkOf9=uv4cqjaiOgN6iiXAy7k_RZkhTXPT_vs+Ke4g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAO=4fJPTiNKvru=+qAasMZYUmsGQe+OBH4A2Dd1v-NFdQ8f-Qw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2]
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

CREDITS | 8 ++++++++
MAINTAINERS | 3 ---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index ca75f110edb6f8..f3441ead4c9fa3 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -3349,6 +3349,10 @@ N: Anil Ravindranath
E: anil_ravindranath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
D: PMC-Sierra MaxRAID driver

+N: Dwaipayan Ray
+E: dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx
+D: checkpatch.pl maintainer
+
N: Eric S. Raymond
E: esr@xxxxxxxxxxx
W: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
@@ -4277,6 +4281,10 @@ S: 820 4th St. N.
S: Fargo, North Dakota 58122
S: USA

+N: Andy Whitcroft
+E: apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
+D: checkpatch.pl maintainer
+
N: Steven Whitehouse
E: steve@xxxxxxxxxxx
W: http://www.chygwyn.com/~steve
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 765ad2daa21831..e0c464cfda48f9 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5869,15 +5869,12 @@ F: Documentation/hwmon/powerz.rst
F: drivers/hwmon/powerz.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

CHECKPATCH DOCUMENTATION
-M: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
M: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
R: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
S: Maintained

base-commit: b60810ff0e0dd6cd8704fb7e495ef38cb8bc050d
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