Reason for NLE_MSGTYPE_NOSUPPORT

Thomas Graf tgraf at infradead.org
Wed Nov 3 07:05:56 EDT 2010


On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:43:00PM +0100, Yves Langisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my user space library I receive kernel events through generic
> netlink commands and attributes. Whenever my receiving thread gets a
> message I get a NLE_MSGTYPE_NOSUPPORT error. The only obvious
> difference to my other working messages is the complexity of the
> failing one.
> 
> Note the last attribute which is a binary attribute. What could be
> reason for this error message? Any ideas?

In the context of genetlink this means that while parsing, no
matching genetlink command was found.

How did you register the verdict cmd? Could also be a parsing bug.



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