I am not really convinced. I could easily see Rust in the wild be full of unwrap, unsafe, etc.. if written by people that do not bother but are forced to use Ru

I am not really convinced. I could easily see Rust in the wild be full of unwrap, unsafe, etc.. if written by people that do not bother but are forced to use Rust. And then, what is even the right behavior for a kernel driver that encounters an unexpected problem related to input? In the interest of security you might want it to crash the machine instead of continuing. I think panic is the default in Rust for many error cases - and I think this is the right approach, but it would have led to exactly the same result in this case.