diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
index ad9db68218243..bd7d9ab63941a 100755
--- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
+++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ while (<IN>) {
 	my $f = $1;
 	my $ln = $2;
 
+	# On linux-next, discard the Next/ directory
+	next if ($f =~ m,^Next/,);
+
 	# Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs
 	next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/);