diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
index 81a329fcd532..7f773d51fdd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ Copyright 2010 Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>
  Getting Coccinelle
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'
-feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.
+The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
+which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
+Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by
+the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.
 
-Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager
+Coccinelle is available through the package manager
 of many distributions, e.g. :
 
- - Debian (>=squeeze)
- - Fedora (>=13)
- - Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)
+ - Debian
+ - Fedora
+ - Ubuntu
  - OpenSUSE
  - Arch Linux
  - NetBSD
@@ -36,11 +38,6 @@ as a regular user, and install it with
 
         sudo make install
 
-The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
-0.2.4 or later.  Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
-semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
-correct.
-
  Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
index d3757adb1260..bbf901afb606 100755
--- a/scripts/coccicheck
+++ b/scripts/coccicheck
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+#
+# This script requires at least spatch
+# version 1.0.0-rc11.
+#
+
 SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"
 
 trap kill_running SIGTERM SIGINT