On 04.02, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 2. Februar 2016 00:19:00 MEZ, schrieb Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > 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.
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