[Tinyos-devel] Patches to FTSP and CC2420 for 32kHz sync and LPL functionality

[Thomas Schmid]

Hi Miklos,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Miklos Maroti<mmaroti at math.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> One more thing:
>
>> - I added a eventTime field to the cc2420 metadata structure. This is
>> necessary for LPL mode, since else the event time would get
>> decremented every time a message gets sent out. we separately have to
>> store this value in the metadata and can't reuse the eventtime field at
>> the end of the data section (current implementation)
>
> That is not necessary. The radio driver should restore the event time
> after it has sent it.
>
> Miklos
>

If that is the case, then the current CC2420 driver has to be fixed.
It does definitely not restore the event time to the old value.

Cheers,

Thomas