Why wouldn't the distro ship the patch, then? What distro is shipping vanilla rc kernels to causal users? Why are casual users using such a distro?
And genuinely, _genuinely_, who is using Linux and can't type three commands into a shell?
Life for them is already not as easy as possible, they've chosen to run an experimental filesystem without backups! If they need to run the recovery today, then getting into the rc doesn't help. If they're waiting for their distro to build the rc, they can't wait a few more weeks for the next release? If they really can't wait, Kent can send them a 5-line bash script to build them a new kernel.
Bottom line: if operate without backups, you've earned your data loss. People being stupid doesn't need to be the Linux kernel's problem.
And genuinely, _genuinely_, who is using Linux and can't type three commands into a shell?
Life for them is already not as easy as possible, they've chosen to run an experimental filesystem without backups! If they need to run the recovery today, then getting into the rc doesn't help. If they're waiting for their distro to build the rc, they can't wait a few more weeks for the next release? If they really can't wait, Kent can send them a 5-line bash script to build them a new kernel.
Bottom line: if operate without backups, you've earned your data loss. People being stupid doesn't need to be the Linux kernel's problem.