On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:10:44PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> Would it make more sense to have some "timecounter_reset()" function, which 
> uses the current nsec value and just resets the internal cycles? Then, as 
> long as the timecounter was updated as close as possible to before the 
> hardware reset, we'd only lose a few cycles, instead of getting the UTC/TAI 
> conversion.

I guess it makes some kind of sense.  BUT still the new time will be
wrong.  And now it will be subtly wrong.  Maybe that would be even
more harmful, because it degrades the time quality while papering over
the driver/HW issues.

Thanks,
Richard


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