Prepare EVP_MAC infrastructure for moving all MACs to providers

[thirdparty/openssl.git] / doc / internal / man3 / ossl_provider_new.pod

diff --git a/doc/internal/man3/ossl_provider_new.pod b/doc/internal/man3/ossl_provider_new.pod
index dd9f1cbec569c845b5f72f6376afb30992c70f8c..7154d5f36a47e92cb7b9b54cf0111537eefbc835 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/internal/man3/ossl_provider_new.pod
+++ b/doc/internal/man3/ossl_provider_new.pod
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ ossl_provider_ctx,
 ossl_provider_forall_loaded,
 ossl_provider_name, ossl_provider_dso,
 ossl_provider_module_name, ossl_provider_module_path,
+ossl_provider_library_context,
 ossl_provider_teardown, ossl_provider_gettable_params,
 ossl_provider_get_params, ossl_provider_query_operation
 - internal provider routines
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ ossl_provider_get_params, ossl_provider_query_operation
  const DSO *ossl_provider_dso(OSSL_PROVIDER *prov);
  const char *ossl_provider_module_name(OSSL_PROVIDER *prov);
  const char *ossl_provider_module_path(OSSL_PROVIDER *prov);
+ OPENSSL_CTX *ossl_provider_library_context(const OSSL_PROVIDER *prov);
 
  /* Thin wrappers around calls to the provider */
  void ossl_provider_teardown(const OSSL_PROVIDER *prov);
@@ -132,6 +134,9 @@ This will be used in preference to automatically trying to figure out
 the path from the provider name and the default module directory (more
 on this in L</NOTES>).
 
+ossl_provider_library_context() returns the library context the given
+provider I<prov> is registered in.
+
 ossl_provider_add_parameter() adds a global parameter for the provider
 to retrieve as it sees fit.
 The parameters are a combination of I<name> and I<value>, and the
@@ -252,6 +257,10 @@ ossl_provider_module_name(), and ossl_provider_module_path() return a
 pointer to their respective data if it's available, otherwise NULL
 is returned.
 
+ossl_provider_library_context() return a pointer to the library context.
+This may be NULL, and is perfectly valid, as it denotes the default
+global library context.
+
 ossl_provider_teardown() doesnt't return any value.
 
 ossl_provider_gettable_params() returns a pointer to a constant