[Tinyos-devel] status of the default-lpl

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Miklos Maroti wrote:
>
>> Hi Razvan,
>>
>> I completely do not understand your naming of the commands.
>
> It's not really mine. :P The names in the LowPowerListening were  
> decided some time ago:
> 	http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.1.0/doc/html/tep105.html
> 	http://hinrg.cs.jhu.edu/git/?p=tinyos-2.x.git;a=history;f=tos/interfaces/LowPowerListening.nc;h=b5225c4fe10c9e6333244aafa78aa435d93411d7;hb=HEAD
>
> The only thing I did was to remove the calls that use duty cycle and  
> keep the ones that deals with time.
>
>> I think we should have
>>
>> void setTxSleepInterval(message_t *msg, uint16_t sleepIntervalMs);
>>
>> because that is the value we use to transmit the message (the length
>> of the preamble / wakeup signal). Then we have the other command  
>> which
>> controls how we sleep while receiving messages. I think that should  
>> be
>> called:
>>
>> void setRxSleepInterval(uint16_t sleepIntervalMs);
>>
>> I like this much better than the "LocalSleepInterval". Maybe I am  
>> just
>> wired in differently.
>>
>
> I don't have a strong attachment to any of the names. If you can  
> convince Phil to use Tx/Rx let me know and I'll make the switch. :-)

The issue I ran into with Rx/Tx was the distintion between  
transmission/transmitter and receiver/reception. More than once I  
found the command names confusing. In particular, setting the Rx sleep  
interval confused me, as I'd assume you'd set the reception sleep  
interval for a packet based on the receiver's interval.

I think I'd be OK with setTxSleepInterval and setLocalSleepInterval.  
But setRx is confusing, at least to me. What do others think?

Phil