1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 208ad3b0ca51..c7865c362d28 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -2103,7 +2103,7 @@ sub process_file($) {
                 $section = $newsection;
             } elsif (/$doc_end/) {
 
-                if ($contents ne "") {
+                if (($contents ne "") && ($contents ne "\n")) {
                     dump_section($file, $section, xml_escape($contents));
                     $section = $section_default;
                     $contents = "";