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 <[email protected]>
---
 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

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