From: Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:43:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [ARM] Improve comment about ASSERT()s in vmlinux.lds.S
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[ARM] Improve comment about ASSERT()s in vmlinux.lds.S

Provide folk with an idea what to do if the ASSERT statements fail
with their linker.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 80c8e4c8cefa..9a47770114d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ SECTIONS
 	.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
 }
 
-/* those must never be empty */
+/*
+ * These must never be empty
+ * If you have to comment these two assert statements out, your
+ * binutils is too old (for other reasons as well)
+ */
 ASSERT((__proc_info_end - __proc_info_begin), "missing CPU support")
 ASSERT((__arch_info_end - __arch_info_begin), "no machine record defined")