[PATCH 1/3] rust: error: improve `Error::from_errno` documentation

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Fri Aug 29 2025 - 15:23:28 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
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