From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 08:55:56 -0700 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v2] ethernet/intel: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies In-Reply-To: References: <20210802145937.1155571-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20210802164907.GA9832@hoboy.vegasvil.org> <20210802230921.GA13623@hoboy.vegasvil.org> Message-ID: <20210803155556.GD32663@hoboy.vegasvil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > It may well be a lost cause, but a build fix is not the time to nail down > that decision. The fix I proposed (with the added MAY_USE_PTP_1588_CLOCK > symbol) is only two extra lines and leaves everything else working for the > moment. Well, then we'll have TWO ugly and incomprehensible Kconfig hacks, imply and MAY_USE. Can't we fix this once and for all? Seriously, "imply" has been nothing but a major PITA since day one, and all to save 22 kb. I can't think of another subsystem which tolerates so much pain for so little gain. Thanks, Richard > I would suggest we merge that first and then raise the question > about whether to give up on tinyfication on the summit list, there are a few > other things that have come up that would also benefit from trying less hard, > but if we overdo this, we can get to the point of hurting even systems that are > otherwise still well supported (64MB MIPS/ARMv5 SoCs, small boot partitions, > etc.). > > Arnd