On Wednesday 2016-03-02 15:50, Florian Westphal wrote: >> >> "--probability" is meant to represent saying "with a probability >> of p=10%, ...". This does not mandate any particular operator. > >So my suggestion is this: > >for nft v2 of meta random support: > >- keep the 'implicit LE op' behaviour so that >meta random 0.1 means '10% probability of matching'. >- change display to hide the LE detail from the user, i.e. >don't show 'meta random le 0.1' but 'meta random 0.1'. >[ I agree with Jan, its detail, users can still see this >with debug output on ].
What I implied is that the operator ought to completely disappear, also from the netlink exchange. Let the random module take just p at the user-kernel boundary, like xt_statistic.c did. -- 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
