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

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Tue Sep 20 2016 - 16:26:12 EST


On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:56:38PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> - Add a warning for the case where PTP clock subsystem is modular and a
> driver providing a clock is built-in rather than silently ignoring it.
> Suggested by Jiri Benc.

So I am really not happy with this. Here is a common embedded
workflow, at least for me:

1. take some given Kconfig and get it running on the target.

2. for the given HW, change the modules into built-ins, and forget
module loading

After this series, if I don't pay enough attention to dmesg, then I
have lost functionality that I had in step #1. That sucks, and it has
nothing to do with the tinification option at all. It will bite even
if I have no knowledge of it. That isn't acceptable to me.

Thanks,
Richard