diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f053dd1440054d3a31e32db5507f6ac86f39156c..ed33afb20a514838ec9efc2a89a0eaacfd399b03 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
 	   F:	drivers/net/*	all files in drivers/net, but not below
 	   F:	*/net/*		all files in "any top level directory"/net
 	   One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable.
+	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.
 	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:
@@ -97,13 +100,12 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
 	   X:	net/ipv6/
 	   matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/
 	K: Keyword perl extended regex pattern to match content in a
-	   patch or file, or an affected filename.  For instance:
+	   patch or file.  For instance:
 	   K: of_get_profile
-	      matches patch or file content, or filenames, that contain
-	      "of_get_profile"
+	      matches patches or files that contain "of_get_profile"
 	   K: \b(printk|pr_(info|err))\b
-	      matches patch or file content, or filenames, that contain one or
-	      more of the words printk, pr_info or pr_err
+	      matches patches or files that contain one or more of the words
+	      printk, pr_info or pr_err
 	   One regex pattern per line.  Multiple K: lines acceptable.
 
 Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical
@@ -7896,7 +7898,7 @@ L:	linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
 Q:	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-tegra/list/
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/swarren/linux-tegra.git
 S:	Supported
-K:	(?i)[^a-z]tegra
+N:	[^a-z]tegra
 
 TEHUTI ETHERNET DRIVER
 M:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index ce4cc837b74890e8ad973242718d1050e1f909c1..5e4fb144a04f657ebd43fb0c64145147d522d7d1 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ sub get_maintainers {
 				    $hash{$tvi} = $value_pd;
 				}
 			    }
-			} elsif ($type eq 'K') {
+			} elsif ($type eq 'N') {
 			    if ($file =~ m/$value/x) {
 				$hash{$tvi} = 0;
 			    }