diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index f76f3d13276dd114c880e13ec45cad7452f992b9..6f97a13bcee4131aedbbf97a4f9db49c50e519e5 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
 	my $file_cnt = @files;
 	my $lastfile;
 
-	open(my $patch, '<', $file)
+	open(my $patch, "< $file")
 	    or die "$P: Can't open $file: $!\n";
 	while (<$patch>) {
 	    my $patch_line = $_;