Hi Frieder
On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 15:35, Frieder Schrempf
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 16.12.25 10:16, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > From: Sughosh Ganu <[email protected]>
> >
> > 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 <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>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 ?
diff --git a/tools/Makefile b/tools/Makefile
index 0ac683ac3ec7..c4308304d99a 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile
+++ b/tools/Makefile
@@ -356,9 +356,9 @@ override HOSTCFLAGS = $(CFLAGS)
quiet_cmd_crosstools_strip = STRIP $^
cmd_crosstools_strip = $(STRIP) $^; touch $@
-$(obj)/.strip: $(call objectify,$(filter $(hostprogs-always-y)))
+$(obj)/.strip: $(call objectify,$(filter $(always),$(hostprogs-y)))
$(call cmd,crosstools_strip)
-always-y += .strip
+always += .strip
endif
clean-files += .strip
Thanks
/Ilias
>
> If the problem is not on my end, then I would have assumed the CI would
> be able to catch it. But "make cross_tools" is not part of any test, right?
>
> Best regards
> Frieder
