From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] socket.2: document AF_ALG Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:05:00 +0100 Message-ID: <54CB1F0C.6070906@gmail.com> References: <2022953.c9E5IKVA29@tauon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2022953.c9E5IKVA29@tauon> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Stephan Mueller , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, 'Herbert Xu' List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 01/29/2015 05:29 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Add a reference to the AF_ALG protocol accessible via socket(2). > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller > CC: Herbert Xu > --- > man2/socket.2 | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man2/socket.2 b/man2/socket.2 > index 229dab3..8885079 100644 > --- a/man2/socket.2 > +++ b/man2/socket.2 > @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Low level packet interface > T}:T{ > .BR packet (7) > T} > +T{ > +.B AF_ALG > +T}:T{ > +Interface to kernel crypto API > +T} > .TE > .PP > The socket has the indicated > @@ -378,6 +383,12 @@ families. > However, already the BSD man page promises: "The protocol > family generally is the same as the address family", and subsequent > standards use AF_* everywhere. > + > +The AF_ALG protocol type is added with kernel version 2.6.38. More > +information on this interface is provided with > +Documentation/crypto/crypto-API-userspace.txt provided in the > +Linux kernel source code tree. > + Thanks, Stephan. Applied. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html