[PATCH net-next v3 3/9] Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists
From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Sun Nov 02 2025 - 20:51:15 EST
Sublists of hardware offload type lists are rendered in combined
paragraph due to lack of separator from their parent list. Add it.
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst
index 86db3f42552dd0..b0d85a5f57d1d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst
@@ -20,11 +20,15 @@ can radically increase throughput and decrease CPU utilization. The XFRM
Device interface allows NIC drivers to offer to the stack access to the
hardware offload.
-Right now, there are two types of hardware offload that kernel supports.
+Right now, there are two types of hardware offload that kernel supports:
+
* IPsec crypto offload:
+
* NIC performs encrypt/decrypt
* Kernel does everything else
+
* IPsec packet offload:
+
* NIC performs encrypt/decrypt
* NIC does encapsulation
* Kernel and NIC have SA and policy in-sync
--
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