RE: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Add Time Sync feature to hv_utils module

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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:42 +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> > Why a maximum of 50 samples?
> After reboot the flag ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC is included in the 
> first time message after the timesync channel is opened. Since the 
> hv_utils module is loaded after hv_vmbus, the first message is usually
> missed. The other thing is, systime is automatically set to emulated 
> hardware clock which may not be UTC time or the same time 
> zone. So, to override these effects, we use the first 50 time samples 
> for initial system time setting.

I suggest putting that in a commit message or a code comment.

cheers, Joe


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