From 4d707a47517674434a7adb3a11ca9e1c9d4a1adf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:10:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] crypto: ahash - improve file comment Improve the file comment for crypto/ahash.c. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- crypto/ahash.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/ahash.c b/crypto/ahash.c index 556c95010093..1ad402f4dac6 100644 --- a/crypto/ahash.c +++ b/crypto/ahash.c @@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ /* * Asynchronous Cryptographic Hash operations. * - * This is the asynchronous version of hash.c with notification of - * completion via a callback. + * This is the implementation of the ahash (asynchronous hash) API. It differs + * from shash (synchronous hash) in that ahash supports asynchronous operations, + * and it hashes data from scatterlists instead of virtually addressed buffers. + * + * The ahash API provides access to both ahash and shash algorithms. The shash + * API only provides access to shash algorithms. * * Copyright (c) 2008 Loc Ho */