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Message-ID: <20120320074140.39a1b3f0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:41:40 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> To: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com> Subject: Re: netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes - triggered by iproute2 libnetlink's rtnl_dump_request() > > Should this get fixed at kernel level, iproute2 libnetlink level or > at end-user level (e.g. collectd)? > Three lines every 10 seconds is a damn lot! > > Thanks, > Bruno Netlink is supposed to be encoded as Type-Length-Value and correctly written programs ignore types they don't understand. So either the library is getting confused by the type or the attribute is not encoded correctly. The issue could be in libnetlink library. What version of collectd and libnetlink are you using? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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