1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 19854f51c8f3..3e733146cd51 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
         }
         close(PATCH);
         if ($file_cnt == @files) {
-            die "$P: file '${file}' doesn't appear to be a patch.  "
+            warn "$P: file '${file}' doesn't appear to be a patch.  "
                 . "Add -f to options?\n";
         }
         @files = sort_and_uniq(@files);