Re: [PATCH v1 11/28] rust: prelude: add `error::code::*` constant items

[Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:41:23 +0100
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
> 
> It is convenient to have all the `Error` constant items (such as
> `EINVAL`) available as-is everywhere (i.e. for code using the kernel
> prelude such as kernel modules).
> 
> Therefore, add all of them to the prelude.

Personally, I would prefer to have all error codes as associated
constants of the `kernel::Error` type so the code below would use
`Err(Error::EINVAL)` (more "Rusty" way of writing things). But IIRC
that we settled on the current approach because it's more similar to
existing C code.

> 
> For instance, this allows to write `Err(EINVAL)` to create
> a kernel `Result`:
> 
>     fn f() -> Result<...> {
>         ...
>         Err(EINVAL)
>     }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
> [Reworded, adapted for upstream and applied latest changes]
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

> ---
>  rust/kernel/prelude.rs | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/prelude.rs b/rust/kernel/prelude.rs
> index 7c4c35bf3c66..1e08b08e9420 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/prelude.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/prelude.rs
> @@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ pub use macros::{module, vtable};
>  
>  pub use super::{pr_alert, pr_crit, pr_debug, pr_emerg, pr_err, pr_info, pr_notice, pr_warn};
>  
> -pub use super::error::{Error, Result};
> +pub use super::error::{code::*, Error, Result};
>  
>  pub use super::ThisModule;