[Tinyos-Storage WG] RE: today's meeting

[David Moss]

Looks like nobody can meet today - probably bargaining for a 4-day weekend I
imagine.  That's cool, let's meet some other time.  In the meantime, let's
continue to discuss stuff over email at everyone's leisure.

I agree with Phil in that if the language of TEP 128 sounds nit-picky about
103, it needs to be toned down.  One of the comments Phil brought up was
about why the authors of 103 separated the read/write interfaces.  My take
on it is this:  the reason why you would write to flash is so you could read
from flash.  Both read and write interfaces are used often inside the same
module, because you wouldn't write without also reading, and the module that
writes knows what it'll read.  It seems more cumbersome to deal with wiring
up and handling two separate read/write interfaces than a single interface
that provides everything you need.  Also, if you don't use some event from
the single read+write interface, then it gets compiled away anyway with zero
impact to your memory footprint.

Thoughts?

-David