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 <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4e76cdc8f796..f801c3bc76e7 100644
--- 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: