Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Done, I pushed a slightly amended version (no additional #include, only
needed in followup changes, I also edited the changelog to not mention
probability anymore.
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