ChangeLog, README: Added the netlink plugin.

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        * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is not sent along
          with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
          of server and clients no longer needs to match.
+       * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
+         kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
+         interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
        * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
          network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
          monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this

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       MySQL server statistics: Commands issued, handlers triggered, thread
       usage, query cache utilization and traffic/octets sent and received.
 
+    - netlink
+      Very detailed Linux network interface and routing statistics. You can get
+      (detailed) information on interfaces, qdiscs, classes, and, if you can
+      make use of it, filters.
+
     - network
       Receive values that were collected by other hosts. Large setups will
       want to collect the data on one dedicated machine, and this is the