diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 20e634627a109ef1eb5594d2930c3cc017317a58..f6f479549f4e3feea311476ef51982eccf6059b1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2222,7 +2222,7 @@ BCACHE (BLOCK LAYER CACHE)
 M:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
 L:	linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
 W:	http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	drivers/md/bcache/
 
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