diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index cc4511177949e3539946f441166586e50212ac2c..778b52720401084e59c68045ff93e94685bdf403 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3153,10 +3153,9 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/scsi/eata_pio.*
 
 EBTABLES
-M:	Bart De Schuymer <bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be>
 L:	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
 W:	http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebt_*.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebt_*.h
 F:	net/bridge/netfilter/ebt*.c