Hi Mat,

 >
> Having the pending data check is one part of clarifying the semantics,
> and I agree that docs are important for this. I'll check up on the
> documentation side of things (Stephan usually includes docs, but they're
> missing from akcipher).
>

Go ahead and make a judgement call.  If you think that 1 socket is 
enough / what the kernel intends, then I'm fine taking such a patch.

Regards,
-Denis