diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index d54a721cfcb7..cbe5cfb7838a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: bb44ad39c886401e1ffe0876565f8b3fcea64e9d
+refs/heads/master: 740504c61f79a932564fb7117d79ad53d950b201
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2c1afba57580..862e8e0e86ae 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1465,6 +1465,7 @@ sub process {
 			}
 
 			my $cond_ptr = -1;
+			$continuation = 0;
 			while ($cond_ptr != $cond_lines) {
 				$cond_ptr = $cond_lines;
 
@@ -1478,9 +1479,11 @@ sub process {
 				#  1) blank lines, they should be at 0,
 				#  2) preprocessor lines, and
 				#  3) labels.
-				if ($s =~ /^\s*?\n/ ||
+				if ($continuation ||
+				    $s =~ /^\s*?\n/ ||
 				    $s =~ /^\s*#\s*?/ ||
 				    $s =~ /^\s*$Ident\s*:/) {
+					$continuation = ($s =~ /^.*?\\\n/) ? 1 : 0;
 					$s =~ s/^.*?\n//;
 					$cond_lines++;
 				}