diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index b928516eea90..dc04d8f80a89 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -2895,6 +2895,11 @@ S: Framewood Road
 S: Wexham SL3 6PJ
 S: United Kingdom
 
+N: Richard Purdie
+E: rpurdie@rpsys.net
+D: Backlight subsystem maintainer
+S: United Kingdom
+
 N: Daniel Quinlan
 E: quinlan@pathname.com
 W: http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f5867f469f13..30c1e3913cb3 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1661,7 +1661,6 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/
 
 BACKLIGHT CLASS/SUBSYSTEM
-M:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
 M:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/video/backlight/