Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] make POSIX timers optional with some Kconfig help

Nicolas Pitre
2016-10-29T02:00:33Z

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 22:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > When POSIX timers are configured out, the PTP clock subsystem should be
> > left out as well. However a bunch of ethernet drivers currently *select*
> > the later in their Kconfig entries. Therefore some more work was needed
> > to break that hard dependency from those drivers without preventing their
> > usage altogether.
>
> By the way: would you have pointers to threads that discussed attempts
> to achieve this using currently available Kconfig options?

You could probably go backward from here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/20/606

Nicolas