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Re: [tip:timers/core] ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional

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On Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:48:00 PM CET Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > It was introduced in linux-next today, but it only happens if you
> > don't do a 'make clean' or 'make mrproper'. Apparently patch 1
> > of the series changes kconfig but that change does not trigger
> > a rebuild of the kconfig binary for me. After removing kconfig
> > from the object directory, it works again.
> 
> That's odd.  If I do a git checkout from linux-next of a commit before 
> this series, then "make oldconfig", and then checkout of master and 
> "make oldconfig again, in both cases I always get:
> 
> $ make oldconfig
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
>   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
>   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
>   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
> scripts/kconfig/conf  --oldconfig Kconfig
> [...]
> 
> And obviously no errors.

I usually build with "make -skj30", so it's possible that it only
happens in a parallel build environment on the first run.
 
> > I also ran into a problem with CONFIG_TIMERFD enabled but
> > CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS turned off. This could be related to some
> > of my own patches though, haven't tried if that happens
> > with just your patches applied.
> 
> Tried that combination in my checkout of linux-next, and once again no 
> build errors here.

Ok, thanks for testing this. It must be something in the y2038
patches I have on top of next. They clashed quite a bit with your
work already, this added dependency is just one more detail for
me to remember with my series, nothing you need to worry about.

	Arnd

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[tip:timers/core] ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional tip-bot for Nicolas Pitre <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-16 09:40 +0100
  Re: [tip:timers/core] ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
    Re: [tip:timers/core] ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-11-18 01:50 +0100
      Re: [tip:timers/core] ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-18 10:20 +0100

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