MAINTAINERS: describe differences between F: and N: patterns

There is a difference in how scripts/get_maintainer.pl treats
F: and N: file pattern matches.

Describe those differences in the MAINTAINERS file.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4e76cdc8f796831d5da588a7ad11dd203bf3bfd8..f801c3bc76e75c172b65e159ed806e66af559dc0 100644 (file)
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
        N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
           N:   [^a-z]tegra     all files whose path contains the word tegra
           One pattern per line.  Multiple N: lines acceptable.
+          scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that
+          match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns.  By default,
+          get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern
+          match occurs.  When an N: match occurs, git log history is used
+          to also notify the people that have git commit signatures.
        X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F:
           Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
           Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: