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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 08:19:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa109637-0102-4341-8bb3-02bf2a90a170@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260709022747.44635-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

On 09/07/2026 04.27, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 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 <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> ---
>   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.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>


      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-09  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-09  2:27 [PATCH] lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence Eric Biggers
2026-07-09  6:19 ` Thomas Huth [this message]

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