MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger

We got sad news that Larry is not with us anymore. He was a long time
Linux developer, his first commit was back in 2005 and he has
maintained several wireless drivers over the years. He was known for
patiently supporting Linux users with all sorts of problems they had.
Larry's work helped so many people around the world and I always
enjoyed working with him, even though I sadly never met him.

Rest in Peace, Larry. You will be missed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/77997185-86a6-41c5-af7a-74e4e9064437@lwfinger.net/
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240625103929.1332926-1-kvalo@kernel.org

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 0107047f807bfc01a0c5e7ad380e15a5ddc95776..1a1a54555e11880daa5483b69f6d43470726ce08 100644 (file)
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1214,6 +1214,10 @@ D: UDF filesystem
 S: (ask for current address)
 S: USA
 
+N: Larry Finger
+E: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
+D: Maintainer of wireless drivers, too many to list here
+
 N: Jürgen Fischer
 E: fischer@norbit.de
 D: Author of Adaptec AHA-152x SCSI driver

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d6c90161c7bfe3886e675396cb2d2d7b44acc3b3..250c4c3aee22cf7b4e1c26e80965873b264b17a3 100644 (file)
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3602,10 +3602,9 @@ W:       https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
 F:     drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/
 
 B43LEGACY WIRELESS DRIVER
-M:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 L:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
 L:     b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
-S:     Maintained
+S:     Orphan
 W:     https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
 F:     drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/
 
@@ -19511,7 +19510,6 @@ F:      drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/
 
 RTL8187 WIRELESS DRIVER
 M:     Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
-M:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 L:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
 S:     Maintained
 T:     git https://github.com/pkshih/rtw.git
@@ -21249,7 +21247,6 @@ W:      http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON
 F:     drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/
 
 STAGING - REALTEK RTL8712U DRIVERS
-M:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 M:     Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>.
 S:     Odd Fixes
 F:     drivers/staging/rtl8712/