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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/ahash.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/ahash.c b/crypto/ahash.c index 556c9501009363..1ad402f4dac6c4 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 <lho@amcc.com> */ |