Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence
From: Thomas Huth
Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 02:20:28 EST
On 09/07/2026 04.27, Eric Biggers wrote:
Make it clear that lib/crypto/ is a kernel-internal library. It's easyReviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
for people to come across this page, especially the HTML version online,
without that context.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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.