From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 828391862; Thu, 9 Jul 2026 02:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783564076; cv=none; b=SxT5mgn9/LzyjcsyK04BE1Z5qrVMzbVIoT/e9Fmsdl4/RP/FkMC/+7I97H+ovgcuKqr7dvPcm1bahAF6eW8obbVkNXSIaxY2aVdOYSQMJBHIvBlJbK0KBFSGsZt2UaF79mi1ZSgu8D5VDlRiPwbXoip2spcpf48MxAXklKl5zyI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783564076; c=relaxed/simple; bh=wJ3i75ZiGk/YEJsPBDUEHKxxQOKkTk7TcjnUdqfg16Y=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=s4Sb/6KsujI7FV+XzzAjtpCcXTvZLJgy2T0JDLH+wkVg6KjDyPHT5KneUF2Ddie5ajpZcIyXtZ/4o7FbiP/bARccaSWyPnQtpfCYz8v2c58ix/90pOyuQ01Jf8ie2l6/dgtMJne4ia8o+Wyyr5eQP0c4S8Yh3EhtqsORnq/371U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=T1dzcQ3z; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="T1dzcQ3z" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B48611F000E9; Thu, 9 Jul 2026 02:27:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1783564075; bh=tGxBJV9z1KaAx6vSMzeYfvuuwaQ+zg5gqBXPbh42KdI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date; b=T1dzcQ3zMrrsG69sao/GZSq3gZ5LeJOGD2TkTbCymb2C7O7vAO29LwM/dw4/BUYJ+ lpjRuYWkHP8SCSolKHbS4ni5zUmZrsa7Kh6CrOJtwcHg++8KiX9pspp9dSPVxBmy9I H7P5wLXkYabfANcbOav9a9cHDihF06svec1f26gwxmhqyaypByvmLzSsmpHo2iK7kS i7cJ1SJEX8q7M3g7gM07b+7rEA/6QNGSCX0moDLyob0MPSQlvOjY8JzCSUKYpErSB+ YagHlA+5eLVzeEEYzuUQpMIVs1xa+Sip7vniAWJLEveWp9ipohT5FhBN72a8TG6rqb oxZKZiP+ox+yw== From: Eric Biggers To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel , "Jason A . Donenfeld" , Herbert Xu , Eric Biggers Subject: [PATCH] lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 22:27:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20260709022747.44635-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Make it clear that lib/crypto/ is a kernel-internal library. It's easy for people to come across this page, especially the HTML version online, without that context. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst index a1557d45b0e5..0733e603d229 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst +++ b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto.rst @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Crypto library ============== -``lib/crypto/`` provides faster and easier access to cryptographic algorithms -than the traditional crypto API. +The Linux kernel's crypto library (``lib/crypto/``) provides kernel-internal +users of cryptographic algorithms with faster and easier access to those +algorithms than the traditional kernel crypto API. Each cryptographic algorithm is supported via a set of dedicated functions. "Crypto agility", where needed, is left to calling code. base-commit: 8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda -- 2.55.0