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@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ N: Zach Brown
 E: zab@zabbo.net
 D: maestro pci sound
 
-M: David Brownell
+N: David Brownell
 D: Kernel engineer, mentor, and friend.  Maintained USB EHCI and
 D: gadget layers, SPI subsystem, GPIO subsystem, and more than a few
 D: device drivers.  His encouragement also helped many engineers get