[riot-devel] Changing the way sock is included by applications

2020-08-31 Thread Martine Sophie Lenders
Dear all, with #14906 [1] I want to start a discussion on how to include a `sock` API into a RIOT application. Up until now, it was (apart from some exceptions) like this:     USEMODULE += _sock_ where `` is the network stack used and `` the specific `sock` API one desires to use in the applicat

[riot-devel] RIOT OS tag on Stackoverflow

2020-08-31 Thread Philipp Blum
Dear community, finally, it is here: The riot-os tag on Stackoverflow. (https://stackoverflow.com/tags/riot-os/) It took a while to reach the rank to create a tag, but I reached it on saturday. My first action was to create a tag for RIOT. Unfortunately it took some days to get it approved. I

Re: [riot-devel] Why do drivers copy their params to RAM?

2020-08-31 Thread Hauke Petersen
Hej Benjamin, you got it right, it is about additional overhead. At least in the drivers that I designed, I always look at the specific parameters and judge them on their importance. If used only during initialization, I tend to leave them in ROM. But if used constantly during run-time, I cop