diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index dd424a4f9f3b..7ecbf3665e6e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -7638,7 +7638,7 @@ S:	Maintained
 P:	Documentation/doc-guide/maintainer-profile.rst
 T:	git git://git.lwn.net/linux.git docs-next
 F:	Documentation/
-F:	tools/lib/python/*
+F:	tools/lib/python/
 F:	tools/docs/
 F:	tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/doc_generator.py
 X:	Documentation/ABI/