From: Randy Dunlap Prevent duplicate output of a Description: section when there is a "blank" ("*") line between the initial function name/description line and the "Description:" header. Test case: drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c::scsi_init_devinfo(). Rob Landley hit this while he was producing SCSI kernel-doc. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/kernel-doc~kernel-doc-prevent-duplicate-description-output scripts/kernel-doc --- a/scripts/kernel-doc~kernel-doc-prevent-duplicate-description-output +++ a/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -1907,7 +1907,7 @@ sub process_file($) { $newsection = $1; $newcontents = $2; - if ($contents ne "") { + if (($contents ne "") && ($contents ne "\n")) { if (!$in_doc_sect && $verbose) { print STDERR "Warning(${file}:$.): contents before sections\n"; ++$warnings; _