From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756898AbcJ1Wuw (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:50:52 -0400 Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.28]:33352 "EHLO lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756744AbcJ1Wuu (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:50:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1477695045.2167.48.camel@tiscali.nl> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] make POSIX timers optional with some Kconfig help From: Paul Bolle To: Nicolas Pitre , John Stultz , Richard Cochran , Michal Marek Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Josh Triplett , Edward Cree , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:50:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1477448931-29051-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> References: <1477448931-29051-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.5 (3.20.5-1.fc24) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 22:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. By the way: would you have pointers to threads that discussed attempts to achieve this using currently available Kconfig options? Thanks, Paul Bolle