diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a59f916a4cf3..47ad796376c0 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 14864655c0f1fafe690c6a44086e83a4ac08b6f6
+refs/heads/master: 654784284430bf2739985914b65e09c7c35a7273
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc b/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc
index 8fd107a3fac4..2dea5f81baef 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/trunk/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -2046,6 +2046,9 @@ sub process_file($) {
 
     $section_counter = 0;
     while (<IN>) {
+	while (s/\\\s*$//) {
+	    $_ .= <IN>;
+	}
 	if ($state == 0) {
 	    if (/$doc_start/o) {
 		$state = 1;		# next line is always the function name