Linus Defends the Compiler Change

> Can you please revert this mess and use what has already been planned > for this warning? It is, once again, really frustrating when you update > to unreleased compiler versions. :( Ehh. Kées, that's the compiler in F42. Really. It's not some "unreleased compiler version". It's the main compiler in one of the biggest Linux distributions, out now. Why do you think I made the change? Because the kernel DID NOT BUILD without those changes. So no. This was not some kind of "solved problem". Quite the reverse. Linus

A text screenshot shows Linus responding to a complaint about using an unreleased compiler version. He explains that it is Fedora 42's main compiler and that the Linux kernel failed to build without the changes. The joke is the blunt reversal of the complaint: the compiler update was necessary, not a solved problem or arbitrary mess.

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