netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:09:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nicolas.pitre@...aro.org
Cc:     john.stultz@...aro.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        richardcochran@...il.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional

From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
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 <davem@...emloft.net>