diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 17962bdd6dbd..102a20dbd03f 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -3368,6 +3368,10 @@ N: Anil Ravindranath
 E: anil_ravindranath@pmc-sierra.com
 D: PMC-Sierra MaxRAID driver
 
+N: Dwaipayan Ray
+E: dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
+D: checkpatch improvements
+
 N: Eric S. Raymond
 E: esr@thyrsus.com
 W: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 461a3eed6129..236b0785bf3d 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5969,8 +5969,6 @@ F:	drivers/input/keyboard/charlieplex_keypad.c
 CHECKPATCH
 M:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
 M:	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
-R:	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
-R:	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	scripts/checkpatch.pl