On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 07:42:49PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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* > 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. > > Therefore this series also includes kconfig changes to implement a new > keyword to express some reverse dependencies like "select" does, named > "imply", and still allowing for the target config symbol to be disabled > if the user or a direct dependency says so. > > How to deal with the dependencies across three subsystems for potential > upstream merging needs to be figured out. This looks good to me, and I like the new "imply" approach. I'd still like to see a more general solution for reporting the use of compiled-out syscalls, but I don't think that needs to block this patch series. Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
