From 417495eda3ce50f9c6d28f8e9ddb3bbb25f07f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:03:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: add __ref as a sparse modifier

Add __ref as a sparse modifier.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0dcfdce632b1..60ad8dbd79e1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ our $Sparse	= qr{
 			__iomem|
 			__must_check|
 			__init_refok|
-			__kprobes
+			__kprobes|
+			__ref
 		}x;
 our $Attribute	= qr{
 			const|
-- 
2.30.2