Re: [PATCH nft 1/3] meta: add random expression key

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 09:35:33AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> meta random fills a 32bit register with a pseudo-random number.
> 
> For instance one can now use
> 
> meta random <= 2147483647
> 
> ... to match every 2nd packet, on average.
> 
> A followup patch will add a short-hand version ('probability 0.5') so
> that users do not have to deal with details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>

Please, apply this patch.

Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We can later on revisit the probability scaling, so keep 2/3 and 3/3
back by now.

Thanks.
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