docs: rust: quick-start: update Ubuntu instructions

Split installation instructions for Ubuntu into 2 different sections:
- For Ubuntu 25.04: this release provides easy-to-install Rust packages.
- For Ubuntu 24.10 and below: these releases provide rust-1.80 and
  bindgen-0.65, which do not set their tools as defaults. The instructions
  for these versions have been updated to configure Rust tools properly.

Signed-off-by: Igor Korotin <igor.korotin@yahoo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402160047.1827500-1-igor.korotin@yahoo.com
[ Dropped 24.10 -- it is soon out of support and their `bindgen` issue
  (reported as issue #2086639) was never patched anyway. Removed trailing
  spaces. Split into subheaders. Added `rustfmt` link. Removed spurious
  backquotes. Reworded contents slightly. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
index 6d2607870ba4..155f7107329a 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
@@ -90,15 +90,53 @@ they should generally work out of the box, e.g.::
 Ubuntu
 ******
 
-Ubuntu LTS and non-LTS (interim) releases provide recent Rust releases and thus
-they should generally work out of the box, e.g.::
+25.04
+~~~~~
+
+The latest Ubuntu releases provide recent Rust releases and thus they should
+generally work out of the box, e.g.::
+
+	apt install rustc rust-src bindgen rustfmt rust-clippy
+
+In addition, ``RUST_LIB_SRC`` needs to be set, e.g.::
+
+	RUST_LIB_SRC=/usr/src/rustc-$(rustc --version | cut -d' ' -f2)/library
+
+For convenience, ``RUST_LIB_SRC`` can be exported to the global environment.
 
-	apt install rustc-1.80 rust-1.80-src bindgen-0.65 rustfmt-1.80 rust-1.80-clippy
+
+24.04 LTS and older
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Though Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and older versions still provide recent Rust
+releases, they require some additional configuration to be set, using
+the versioned packages, e.g.::
+
+	apt install rustc-1.80 rust-1.80-src bindgen-0.65 rustfmt-1.80 \
+		rust-1.80-clippy
+	ln -s /usr/lib/rust-1.80/bin/rustfmt /usr/bin/rustfmt-1.80
+	ln -s /usr/lib/rust-1.80/bin/clippy-driver /usr/bin/clippy-driver-1.80
+
+None of these packages set their tools as defaults; therefore they should be
+specified explicitly, e.g.::
+
+	make LLVM=1 RUSTC=rustc-1.80 RUSTDOC=rustdoc-1.80 RUSTFMT=rustfmt-1.80 \
+		CLIPPY_DRIVER=clippy-driver-1.80 BINDGEN=bindgen-0.65
+
+Alternatively, modify the ``PATH`` variable to place the Rust 1.80 binaries
+first and set ``bindgen`` as the default, e.g.::
+
+	PATH=/usr/lib/rust-1.80/bin:$PATH
+	update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/bindgen bindgen \
+		/usr/bin/bindgen-0.65 100
+	update-alternatives --set bindgen /usr/bin/bindgen-0.65
 
 ``RUST_LIB_SRC`` needs to be set when using the versioned packages, e.g.::
 
 	RUST_LIB_SRC=/usr/src/rustc-$(rustc-1.80 --version | cut -d' ' -f2)/library
 
+For convenience, ``RUST_LIB_SRC`` can be exported to the global environment.
+
 In addition, ``bindgen-0.65`` is available in newer releases (24.04 LTS and
 24.10), but it may not be available in older ones (20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS),
 thus ``bindgen`` may need to be built manually (please see below).