netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] make POSIX timers optional with some Kconfig help

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1610282158170.14694@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 22:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
cc:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] make POSIX timers optional with some Kconfig
 help

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:

> 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?

You could probably go backward from here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/20/606


Nicolas