[Bug 216026] Fails to compile using gcc 12.1 under Ubuntu 22.04

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216026

--- Comment #34 from Robert Dinse (nanook@eskimo.com) ---
I'm all for honesty, not so much for brutality, but I do realize that many
people who work with computers choose to do so because they're not so good with
humans.

That said, your position would be appropriate if Linux were still Linus's hobby
project.

The reality is that much of the real world computation depends upon it, the
vast majority of super computers run Linux, Android phones run Linux, most of
Googles, Amazons, and even Microsoft's services run Linux, so it has grown
beyond hobby status.  Self driving cars depend upon it, etc.  In short, it is
critical to the technological world and technology is critical to 8 billion
people surviving on this ball we call Earth.  So this requires a bit more
professionalism than a hobby project.

Isn't my intent to spam a mailing list, it is my intent to make the developers
aware of a SERIOUS bug, and when a kernel can't be compiled with the most
recent versions of EITHER compiler chains, that is serious, especially when
you've End-of-Life'd the previous version which means they are not getting
security fixes.

I've been involved in some development projects myself, back in the days of
8-bit computers I even wrote a very specialized programming language, but I've
never worked with a team of more than half a dozen individuals, so I can't even
imagine what it is like for Linus to coordinate several thousand developers.

That said, personality issues don't help, best to stick with technical issues,
tackle them and move on.

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