1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index c7109ca40ba4..01e8a8e22602 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -281,9 +281,10 @@ my $doc_special = "\@\%\$\&";
 my $doc_start = '^/\*\*\s*$'; # Allow whitespace at end of comment start.
 my $doc_end = '\*/';
 my $doc_com = '\s*\*\s*';
+my $doc_com_body = '\s*\* ?';
 my $doc_decl = $doc_com . '(\w+)';
 my $doc_sect = $doc_com . '([' . $doc_special . ']?[\w\s]+):(.*)';
-my $doc_content = $doc_com . '(.*)';
+my $doc_content = $doc_com_body . '(.*)';
 my $doc_block = $doc_com . 'DOC:\s*(.*)?';
 
 my %constants;
@@ -460,6 +461,9 @@ sub output_highlight {
 #   print STDERR "contents af:$contents\n";
 
     foreach $line (split "\n", $contents) {
+        if (! $output_preformatted) {
+            $line =~ s/^\s*//;
+        }
         if ($line eq ""){
             if (! $output_preformatted) {
                 print $lineprefix, local_unescape($blankline);
@@ -2085,7 +2089,7 @@ sub process_file($) {
                     $descr= $1;
                     $descr =~ s/^\s*//;
                     $descr =~ s/\s*$//;
-                    $descr =~ s/\s+/ /;
+                    $descr =~ s/\s+/ /g;
                     $declaration_purpose = xml_escape($descr);
                     $in_purpose = 1;
                 } else {
@@ -2177,6 +2181,7 @@ sub process_file($) {
                     # Continued declaration purpose
                     chomp($declaration_purpose);
                     $declaration_purpose .= " " . xml_escape($1);
+                    $declaration_purpose =~ s/\s+/ /g;
                 } else {
                     $contents .= $1 . "\n";
                 }