On 04.02, Florian Westphal wrote: > Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 2. Februar 2016 00:19:00 MEZ, schrieb Florian Westphal <[email protected]>: > > > > > > enum datatypes { > > > TYPE_INVALID, > > >@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ enum datatypes { > > > TYPE_ICMPV6_CODE, > > > TYPE_ICMPX_CODE, > > > TYPE_DEVGROUP, > > >+ TYPE_PROBABILITY, > > > __TYPE_MAX > > > > > > > Any reason why you chose to add this type instead of a generic floating > > point type? > > I wanted 0.9999 be tranlated to a value close to UINT32_MAX and 0.00001 > to something close to zero so that "meta random 0.999" can be translated to > something like > > reg1 = prandom_u32() > reg1 <= 0xffffffee > > I.e. this type cannot represent 5.2 (or whatever). > > Does that answer your question?
Not really unless I'm misunderstanding your intention. That part is related to the kernel internal representation and could be handled during linearization. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
