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Message-ID: <20250829192243.678079-2-ojeda@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:22:41 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
	Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
	Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] rust: error: improve `Error::from_errno` documentation

This constructor is public since commit 5ed147473458 ("rust: error:
make conversion functions public"), and we will refer to it from the
documentation of `to_result` in a later commit.

Thus improve its documentation, including adding examples.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
---
 rust/kernel/error.rs | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/error.rs b/rust/kernel/error.rs
index a41de293dcd1..c415c3d3a3b6 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/error.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/error.rs
@@ -101,8 +101,23 @@ macro_rules! declare_err {
 impl Error {
     /// Creates an [`Error`] from a kernel error code.
     ///
-    /// It is a bug to pass an out-of-range `errno`. `EINVAL` would
-    /// be returned in such a case.
+    /// `errno` must be within error code range (i.e. `>= -MAX_ERRNO && < 0`).
+    ///
+    /// It is a bug to pass an out-of-range `errno`. [`code::EINVAL`] is returned in such a case.
+    ///
+    /// # Examples
+    ///
+    /// ```
+    /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(-1), EPERM);
+    /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(-2), ENOENT);
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// The following calls are considered a bug:
+    ///
+    /// ```
+    /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(0), EINVAL);
+    /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(-1000000), EINVAL);
+    /// ```
     pub fn from_errno(errno: crate::ffi::c_int) -> Error {
         if let Some(error) = Self::try_from_errno(errno) {
             error
-- 
2.51.0