From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160922.020941.60363145556877289.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1474401400-18491-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de, richardcochran@gmail.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1474401400-18491-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:56:38 -0400 > Many embedded systems don't need the full POSIX timer support. > Configuring them out provides a nice kernel image size reduction. > > When POSIX timers are configured out, the PTP clock subsystem should be > left out as well. However a bunch of ethernet drivers currently *select* > it in their Kconfig entries. Therefore some more tweaks were needed to > break that hard dependency for those drivers to still be configured in > if desired. > > It was agreed that the best path upstream for those patches is via > John Stultz's timer tree. Acked-by: David S. Miller