kernel-doc: strip leading blank lines from inline doc comments

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@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

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}:$.): ";