doc: Add MSRV comments to toolchain guidance

Add some extra clarification about our current position on
MSRV.

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
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@@ -86,4 +86,4 @@ If you have a suggestion for how we can improve the
### Toolchain Guidance
* [Toolchain Guidance](./Toochain-Guidance.md)
* [Toolchain Guidance](./Toolchain-Guidance.md)

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@@ -37,3 +37,10 @@ In practice this should mean that we bump our rust toolchain every six weeks, to
of that version, if there were any.
The rust-toolchain that we are using is recorded in [`rust-toolchain.toml`](../rust-toolchain.toml).
> [!NOTE]
> We don't currently have a firm policy on the minimum supported rust version (MSRV) for our components.
> When bumping the toolchain version we attempt to stay up-to-date with new language features that
> improve the current codebase (e.g. fixing new clipping warnings) and this often will result in
> the MSRV being implicitly bumped so we can use these features, but we don't have a hard requirement
> that bumps the MSRV to the same level as the toolchain.