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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3) posix-timers: make it configurable
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Nicolas Pitre
<nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, John Stultz wrote:
>
>> > diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
>> > index 62824f2fe4..62504a2c9f 100644
>> > --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
>> > @@ -195,3 +195,21 @@ config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
>> >
>> > endmenu
>> > endif
>> > +
>> > +config POSIX_TIMERS
>> > + bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EMBEDDED
>> > + default y
>> > + help
>> > + This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
>> > + Most embedded systems may have no use for them and therefore they
>> > + can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
>> > +
>> > + When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
>> > + available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
>> > + timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime. Furthermore, the
>> > + clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
>> > + syscalls will be limited to CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC
>> > + only.
>> > +
>> > + If unsure say y.
>> >
>>
>> One thought.. Should this go under:
>> Configure standard kernel features (expert users)
>> rather then a top level item under General Setup ?
>
> Hmmm... probably yes.
>
> Do you need that I repost the patch?

I can see about moving it..

thanks
-john

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