From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@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. Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
