From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: atmel-i2c - improve comment in atmel_i2c_init_ecdh_cmd
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 21:27:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260603192708.1237715-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
Clarify that a P-256 public key is encoded as two 32-byte coordinates.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c
index ff19857894d0..24bded47a32b 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c
@@ -138,9 +138,8 @@ int atmel_i2c_init_ecdh_cmd(struct atmel_i2c_cmd *cmd,
cmd->param2 = cpu_to_le16(DATA_SLOT_2);
/*
- * The device only supports NIST P256 ECC keys. The public key size will
- * always be the same. Use a macro for the key size to avoid unnecessary
- * computations.
+ * The device only supports P-256. Its public key is encoded as
+ * two 32-byte coordinates.
*/
copied = sg_copy_to_buffer(pubkey,
sg_nents_for_len(pubkey,
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