diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a097afd76ded..313ce65c1eaf 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -13106,7 +13106,7 @@ M:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
 R:	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
 R:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
 R:	Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
-R:	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
+M:	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
 L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
 S:	Supported
 W:	https://github.com/linuxppc/wiki/wiki