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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 09:48:57 +0200
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] posix-timers: make them configurable
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 02:19:24PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> Also given many other syscalls take clockids and the backing logic
> isn't really getting removed (probably could cut the dynamic posix
> clocks core with the same conditional), I wonder if you could get a
> similar size win by taking a slightly more narrow cutting of the
> subsystem. That way you could preserve the more useful clock_gettime()
> functionality, but maybe stub out some of the less often used
> functionality.
I want to support tinification, but I also doubt the utility of
removing clock_gettime() and clock_nanosleep(). I can't imagine ever
building a user space without those. In fact, thinking about IoT,
having good time is critical, and so these are the *last* functions I
would remove when downsizing.
Thanks,
Richard
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