stats_tree --> are there plans to support floating point counts?

["Sampanthan, Sangaran" <Sangaran.Sampanthan () viasat com>]

Hello,

 

I need to calculate some statistics on our proprietary protocol.  We
have created the custom plugin, tapped it, and now we need to create the
stats tree.  However I noticed that the method

 

stats_tree_manip_node(manip_node_mode mode, stats_tree *st, const char
*name, int parent_id, gboolean with_hash, gint value)

 

only passes integer values, and that the "counter" field of the
"stat_node" struct is an integer as well.   It would seem like an easy
change to make it floating point, and the displayed "rate" and "percent"
calculations would still make sense if the "count" was floating point.


 

Is there any reason that stat_node->counter is an integer?  Are there
any developers that would be open to making this a floating point type?
Is there a formal way I can make this request?

 

Thanks so much!

 

Shankar

 

 

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