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netlink: add NETLINK_CRYPTO

PATCH In review Stephan Mueller 2 participants 2 messages Dec 2, 2014 – Jan 7, 2015 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 netlink: add NETLINK_CRYPTO

Add the NETLINK_CRYPTO reference to netlink(7).

Signed-off-by Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
---
 man7/netlink.7 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
man7/netlink.7 +5 -0
index be7814a..bfeb381 100644
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ Kernel messages to user space.
 .TP
 .B NETLINK_GENERIC
 Generic netlink family for simplified netlink usage.
+.TP
+.B NETLINK_CRYPTO
+Netlink interface to request information about ciphers registered
+with the kernel crypto API as well as allow configuration of the
+kernel crypto API.
 .PP
 Netlink messages consist of a byte stream with one or multiple
 .I nlmsghdr
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[CC += Steffen Klassert]

Quoted 14 lines · Stephan Mueller

Add the NETLINK_CRYPTO reference to netlink(7).

Signed-off-by Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
---
 man7/netlink.7 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
man7/netlink.7 +0 -0
index be7814a..bfeb381 100644
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ Kernel messages to user space.
 .TP

man7/netlink.7 Kernel messages to user space. · line 123

Quoted 10 lines
man7/netlink.7 +5 -0
 .B NETLINK_GENERIC
 Generic netlink family for simplified netlink usage.
+.TP
+.B NETLINK_CRYPTO
+Netlink interface to request information about ciphers registered
+with the kernel crypto API as well as allow configuration of the
+kernel crypto API.
 .PP
 Netlink messages consist of a byte stream with one or multiple
 .I nlmsghdr

Thanks, Stephan. Applied.

@Steffen: is the API exposed via this netlink socket type actually documented anywhere?

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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