Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:47:53 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] make POSIX timers optional with some Kconfig help |
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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* > 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. > > Therefore this series also includes kconfig changes to implement a new > keyword to express some reverse dependencies like "select" does, named > "imply", and still allowing for the target config symbol to be disabled > if the user or a direct dependency says so. > > At this point I'd like to gather ACKs especially from people in the "To" > field. Ideally this would need to go upstream as a single series to avoid > cross subsystem dependency issues. So far it was suggested that this should go > via the kbuild tree.
For the whole series:
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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