[Tinyos Core WG] Re: starting radio

[David Gay]

On 2/8/07, David Gay <dgay42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The TinyOS 2 network protocols have an inconsistent view of how the
> radio should be started:
>
> - dissemination: starts the radio automatically
> - collection (well, Ctp at least): doesn't start the radio (but does
> track its state)
>
> Is there a reason for this difference, and if not, what's the expected
> behaviour here? (i.e., whose job is it to start the radio in T2?)

Actually a related issue: you have to start collection (via a
StdControl), but not dissemination. Same questions there... (why the
difference? should there be a difference?)

David