diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 534a8dc4f84a..9271068bde63 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -77,21 +77,13 @@ Tips for patch submitters
 
 8.	Happy hacking.
 
-Descriptions of section entries
--------------------------------
+Descriptions of section entries and preferred order
+---------------------------------------------------
 
 	M: *Mail* patches to: FullName <address@domain>
 	R: Designated *Reviewer*: FullName <address@domain>
 	   These reviewers should be CCed on patches.
 	L: *Mailing list* that is relevant to this area
-	W: *Web-page* with status/info
-	B: URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug
-	   filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI.
-	C: URI for *chat* protocol, server and channel where developers
-	   usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel.
-	Q: *Patchwork* web based patch tracking system site
-	T: *SCM* tree type and location.
-	   Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
 	S: *Status*, one of the following:
 	   Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.
 	   Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.
@@ -102,30 +94,39 @@ Descriptions of section entries
 	   Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
 			it has been replaced by a better system and you
 			should be using that.
+	W: *Web-page* with status/info
+	Q: *Patchwork* web based patch tracking system site
+	B: URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug
+	   filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI.
+	C: URI for *chat* protocol, server and channel where developers
+	   usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel.
 	P: Subsystem Profile document for more details submitting
 	   patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file,
 	   or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
 	   for details.
+	T: *SCM* tree type and location.
+	   Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
 	F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns.
 	   A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
 	   F:	drivers/net/	all files in and below drivers/net
 	   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 *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: *Excluded* 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:
 	   F:	net/
 	   X:	net/ipv6/
 	   matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/
+	N: Files and directories *Regex* patterns.
+	   N:	[^a-z]tegra	all files whose path contains tegra
+	                        (not including files like integrator)
+	   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.
 	K: *Content regex* (perl extended) pattern match in a patch or file.
 	   For instance:
 	   K: of_get_profile