[Tinyos-devel] purpose of the Packet.clear() function

[Andreas Koepke]

Relying on the user to clear data of which he does not know is pretty
dangerous, I would not trust myself there. On tda5250 you do not have to
call it, even if you decide to toggle PacketAck on each packet.

Best, Andreas

Miklos Maroti wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I think there should be, but it is unfortunately not used. If a user
> requests for example acknowledgment via the PacketAcknowledgement
> interface, then it is not clear when that flag will be cleared if the
> message_t is reused. So the Packet.clear should be called to reset
> everything to their defaults in the header and metadata, this should
> be especially important between the serial and radio interfaces.
> 
> Miklos
> 
> On 10/8/07, Razvan Musaloiu-E. <razvanm at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Hi!
>>
>>Is there a strong argument for the existence of the Packet.clear()? The
>>function is implemented by CC1000, XE1205 and TDA5250 but it is only used
>>in the PacketParrot application.
>>
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