The inline member markup allows whitespace lines before the actual documentation starts. Strip the leading blank lines. This improves the rst output. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index a89ff3ca366c..e8ea295567a3 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -2889,6 +2889,10 @@ sub process_file($) { } elsif (/$doc_content/) { if ($inline_doc_state == STATE_INLINE_TEXT) { $contents .= $1 . "\n"; + # nuke leading blank lines + if ($contents =~ /^\s*$/) { + $contents = ""; + } } elsif ($inline_doc_state == STATE_INLINE_NAME) { $inline_doc_state = STATE_INLINE_ERROR; print STDERR "Warning(${file}:$.): "; -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html