Russell King - ARM Linux writes:
 > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:49:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
 > > Recent assembler versions complain about extraneous
 > > whitespace inside [] brackets. This fixes all of
 > > these instances for the samsung platforms. We should
 > > backport this to all kernels that might need to
 > > be built with new binutils.
 > 
 > I hope that's also been reported as a bug to the binutils people.

See PR gas/14887, a post binutils-2.23.1 regression which seems
to be fixed on trunk but not on 2.23 branch.