diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ec7d5513fe46..8e2518b9f11c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b60f796c4ca72545327a069f12938360d833cce7
+refs/heads/master: 0ede27450716dda82474023d6726ab50f2751adb
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index f32a04c4c5bc..f5b1f3aa5bd2 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ sub get_maintainer_role {
     my $start = find_starting_index($index);
     my $end = find_ending_index($index);
 
-    my $role;
+    my $role = "unknown";
     my $subsystem = $typevalue[$start];
     if (length($subsystem) > 20) {
 	$subsystem = substr($subsystem, 0, 17);