[PATCH] kbuild: Bump the build system to 6.1

[Ilias Apalodimas]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 at 11:08, Frieder Schrempf
<frieder.schrempf at kontron.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Ilias,
>
> On 11.02.26 16:25, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > Hi Frieder
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 15:35, Frieder Schrempf
> > <frieder.schrempf at kontron.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 16.12.25 10:16, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> >>> From: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> >>>
> >>> Our last sync with the kernel was 5.1.
> >>>
> >>> We are so out of sync now, that tracking the patches and backporting
> >>> them one by one makes little sense and it's going to take ages.
> >>>
> >>> This is an attempt to sync up Makefiles to 6.1.
> >>> Unfortunately due to sheer amount of patches this is not easy to review,
> >>> but that's what we decided during a community call for the bump to 5.1,
> >>> so we are following the same guidelines here.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>a #rebased on -next
> >>
> >> To me, it looks like this is breaking "make cross_tools" in some way. Or
> >> am I missing something?
> >>
> >> With v2026.04-rc2:
> >>
> >>> make tools-only_defconfig
> >>> make cross_tools
> >>   UPD     include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h
> >>   PYMOD   rebuild
> >> tools/Makefile:359: *** insufficient number of arguments (1) to function
> >> 'filter'.  Stop.
> >> make: *** [Makefile:2191: tools] Error 2
> >
> > Does the below fix it ?
>
> Yes it does!

Ok, I'll have a closer look and make sure nothing else is affected and
send a patch

Cheers
/Ilias
>
> Thanks
> Frieder
>

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