get_maintainer: exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback

MAINTAINERS files generally have no specific maintainer but are updated by
individuals for subsystems all over the source tree.

Exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback searches so the unlucky
individuals that update the files the most are not shown by default.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bacb0a9c06fbb6d56a43bf930e808c74243c908.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 5a36354..2075db0 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -957,8 +957,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
 
     foreach my $file (@files) {
        if ($email &&
-           ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback &&
-                           !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
+           ($email_git ||
+            ($email_git_fallback &&
+             $file !~ /MAINTAINERS$/ &&
+             !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
            vcs_file_signoffs($file);
        }
        if ($email && $email_git_blame) {