[Tinyos Core WG] Re: starting radio

[Philip Levis]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 1:41 PM, David Gay wrote:

> 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?)

Dissemination is wrong.

Phil