diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 890a29cb68e7..b333442b5f9a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b6b6e2b112cafcd63bdbebbffe97279f41e5ca62
+refs/heads/master: 4c98ecaf350737cd424eb94140e9e9f1a3408956
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc b/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc
index 208ad3b0ca51..c7865c362d28 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/trunk/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 = "";