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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2005-11-17 16:43:14 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2005-11-17 16:43:14 +0000
commit728f5c076ad000e547aa9e00d16792043ee1bfc6 (patch)
treebbe516b97c5a6e594ea159f4c4efc6e439916f29 /arch
parent5470dc656820fb67c0a2e352f0aaa48b86c19026 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 80c8e4c8cef..9a47770114d 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")