diff --git a/arch/mips/vdso/Makefile b/arch/mips/vdso/Makefile
index 14568900fc1d..ee3617c0c5e2 100644
--- a/arch/mips/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/vdso/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ aflags-vdso := $(ccflags-vdso) \
 # the comments on that file.
 #
 ifndef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6
-  ifeq ($(call ld-ifversion, -lt, 22500000, y),y)
+  ifeq ($(call ld-ifversion, -lt, 225000000, y),y)
     $(warning MIPS VDSO requires binutils >= 2.25)
     obj-vdso-y := $(filter-out gettimeofday.o, $(obj-vdso-y))
     ccflags-vdso += -DDISABLE_MIPS_VDSO
diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
index 198580d245e0..d154f0877fd8 100755
--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
 	{
 	gsub(".*)", "");
+	gsub(".*version ", "");
+	gsub("-.*", "");
 	split($1,a, ".");
-	print a[1]*10000000 + a[2]*100000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
+	print a[1]*100000000 + a[2]*1000000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
 	exit
 	}