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What distributions are including kernels so quickly without also including various patch sets applied? Even Gentoo layers patches on top of the recent kernels, unless you run the literal source; but if you can do that you can apply your own patch sets.

Big distros like RedHat or Ubuntu always roll patched kernels, and as far as I know they’re usually a bit long in the tooth.

It seems to me like the goal is to work around the user having to type that to use Bcachefs while implying that they will have with the standard gatekeepers to avoid any limits on adoption via quality checks.

By this logic it should be kept out of the kernel entirely until it's stable enough for general use.

Any distro shipping -rc releases to regular users can apply Kent's patches themselves if they think it's that important. But seriously, how many distros do that, and of those, how many of their users are on experimental filesystems?