diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index 16b51eb..2743da9 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -98,6 +98,22 @@
 used. Failing that you can put it into your path or ~/bin/checkpatch.pl
 
 
+If you want to change the defaults for patman's command-line arguments,
+you can add a [settings] section to your .patman file.  This can be used
+for any command line option by referring to the "dest" for the option in
+patman.py.  For reference, the useful ones (at the moment) shown below
+(all with the non-default setting):
+
+>>>
+
+[settings]
+ignore_errors: True
+process_tags: False
+verbose: True
+
+<<<
+
+
 How to run it
 =============