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Message-ID: <20251118092610.2223552-7-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:25:43 +0100
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Steffen Klassert
	<steffen.klassert@...unet.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 06/12] Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>

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@...radead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
---
 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 86db3f42552d..b0d85a5f57d1 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
-- 
2.43.0