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Rust version policy: clarify that this part is only reiterating the main docs
Use a quote block to make it more clear. Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
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## Supported versions
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The kernel documents the [minimal requirements](https://docs.kernel.org/process/changes.html) to compile it. However, in the case of Rust, currently we only support a single stable version: newer versions are allowed for convenience (with a warning from the build system), but they may or may not work. Older versions are disallowed.
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The kernel documents the [minimal requirements](https://docs.kernel.org/process/changes.html) to compile it. In the case of Rust, currently only a single version is supported (i.e. rather than a minimum):
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> A particular version of the Rust toolchain is required. Newer versions may or may not work because the kernel depends on some unstable Rust features, for the moment.
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The reason is that we cannot guarantee newer Rust versions will work due to the [unstable features](Unstable-features.md) in use. Removing the need for them is a priority in order to be able to eventually declare a minimum Rust version for the kernel.
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