On 01/29/2015 05:29 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Add a reference to the AF_ALG protocol accessible via socket(2).
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> man2/socket.2 | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man2/socket.2 b/man2/socket.2
> index 229dab3..8885079 100644
> --- a/man2/socket.2
> +++ b/man2/socket.2
> @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Low level packet interface
> T}:T{
> .BR packet (7)
> T}
> +T{
> +.B AF_ALG
> +T}:T{
> +Interface to kernel crypto API
> +T}
> .TE
> .PP
> The socket has the indicated
> @@ -378,6 +383,12 @@ families.
> However, already the BSD man page promises: "The protocol
> family generally is the same as the address family", and subsequent
> standards use AF_* everywhere.
> +
> +The AF_ALG protocol type is added with kernel version 2.6.38. More
> +information on this interface is provided with
> +Documentation/crypto/crypto-API-userspace.txt provided in the
> +Linux kernel source code tree.
> +
Thanks, Stephan. Applied.
Cheers,
Michael
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