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

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional
Date	2016-09-22 08:20 +0200
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From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.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.

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[PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-09-20 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-09-20 23:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-09-20 23:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-09-21 00:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 10:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> - 2016-09-21 12:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-09-21 11:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> - 2016-09-21 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-09-20 23:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make POSIX timers optional David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-09-22 08:20 +0200

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