From: Eric Biggers Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 02:27:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9665e22579ee4324a14e035b5b29d3d1fdc929e2;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence 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. Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709022747.44635-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- 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.