[Tinyos-devel] status of the default-lpl

[Miklos Maroti]

What about setLocalSleepInterval and setRemoveSleepInterval? Miklos

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Philip Levis<pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>