From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754574AbcIVGJt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:09:49 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:55092 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753219AbcIVGJs (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:09:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20160922.020941.60363145556877289.davem@davemloft.net> To: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de, richardcochran@gmail.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1474401400-18491-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> References: <1474401400-18491-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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