diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 716acfc3d7c1..07088d5ac788 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -14887,7 +14887,7 @@ X:	drivers/macintosh/via-macii.c
 
 LINUX FOR POWERPC (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
 M:	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
-M:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
+R:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
 R:	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
 R:	Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
 L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org