Cool, good thing I didn't say to panic everywhere.

That lkml post has zero relevance here. He's asking for fallible allocations. Which is totally reasonable.

Serious question: did you read the entire blog? If so, can you specifically point out passages you disagree with and why?

EDIT: And seriously, I started out this conversation with a serious comment asking you to elaborate on what you meant by asking something very concrete: how would you change the code example in my blog to conform to your view? You decided to flippantly respond with a non-answer in the first place. Why not go back to the original question I asked and give a real answer? If you don't know Rust, then use pseudo code. We're talking about a dozen lines here. It shouldn't take long.