From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753783AbcIOVHj (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:07:39 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:36274 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752286AbcIOVHa (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:07:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:07:24 +0200 From: Richard Cochran To: John Stultz Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Thomas Gleixner , Josh Triplett , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH v3) posix-timers: make it configurable Message-ID: <20160915210724.GB4245@localhost.localdomain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:58:22PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > This doesn't look too bad. I disagree. It looks ugly. If tinification means sprinkling more and more of these conditionals all over the place, then it is going to be a tough sell. > Richard: Your thoughts? We decided to have MAC drivers select PTP for a reason. It is a feature that people generally want to have. If those drivers bring in 22 KB timer support, then too bad. As I said before, timers are the last thing I would remove. Maybe there is a way to make this work in Kconfig land without messing with the code? Thanks, Richard