From: <ramon.rey@hispalinux.es>

The author and maintainer of the firmware loader died in May.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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 25-akpm/MAINTAINERS |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN MAINTAINERS~firmware-loader-is-orphan MAINTAINERS
--- 25/MAINTAINERS~firmware-loader-is-orphan	Wed Aug 18 17:59:11 2004
+++ 25-akpm/MAINTAINERS	Wed Aug 18 17:59:11 2004
@@ -824,10 +824,8 @@ M:	viro@math.psu.edu
 S:	Maintained
 
 FIRMWARE LOADER (request_firmware)
-P:	Manuel Estrada Sainz
-M:	ranty@debian.org
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 
 FPU EMULATOR
 P:	Bill Metzenthen
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