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| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 5 |
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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: |