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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>
Joe Perches 11 жил өмнө
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@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
 	N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
 	N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
 	   N:	[^a-z]tegra	all files whose path contains the word tegra
 	   N:	[^a-z]tegra	all files whose path contains the word tegra
 	   One pattern per line.  Multiple N: lines acceptable.
 	   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:
 	X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F:
 	   Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
 	   Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
 	   Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance:
 	   Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: