Re: [PATCH v3) posix-timers: make it configurable

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, John Stultz wrote:

> > diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
> > index 62824f2fe4..62504a2c9f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
> > +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
> > @@ -195,3 +195,21 @@ config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
> >
> >  endmenu
> >  endif
> > +
> > +config POSIX_TIMERS
> > +       bool "Posix Clocks & timers" if EMBEDDED
> > +       default y
> > +       help
> > +         This includes native support for POSIX timers to the kernel.
> > +         Most embedded systems may have no use for them and therefore they
> > +         can be configured out to reduce the size of the kernel image.
> > +
> > +         When this option is disabled, the following syscalls won't be
> > +         available: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun,
> > +         timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime. Furthermore, the
> > +         clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
> > +         syscalls will be limited to CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC
> > +         only.
> > +
> > +         If unsure say y.
> >
> 
> One thought.. Should this go under:
>     Configure standard kernel features (expert users)
> rather then a top level item under  General Setup ?

Hmmm... probably yes.

Do you need that I repost the patch?


Nicolas