[Tinyos-devel] Request for comments on TEP 111

[Razvan Musaloiu-E.]

Hi!

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Matt Welsh wrote:

> Wei,
>
> Here are some comments on TEP 111.
>
> 1) Section 2 states that "This format keeps data at a fixed offset", but
> this does not seem to be the case: different platforms with different
> header sizes will have different offsets to the data field. This seems
> to be an ambiguity of wording; I think the correct wording is "This
> format keeps data at a fixed offset on a given platform".
>
> 2) It is not clear why the metadata fields need to be nx_ types. These
> fields are not sent over the radio, so there is no need for
> endianness-matching on other processors; the extra overhead of using nx_
> types for metadata access is not warranted. Some justification should be
> given for this.

One reason for the nx_ types for metadata is the forwarding over the
serial port. :-)

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Razvan ME