--- Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:40:08PM +0200, Christoph Badura wrote:
> [...]
> > However, it also causes the SCSI disks to be probed as sd5 and sd6
> > (on scsibus3).  That is unexpected, undocumented and entirely not
> what I want.
> 
> Yet autoconf(9) has always worked like that.  The reason why
> wildcarded
> instances take a unit number greater than the maximum of the wired
> down
> instances is to avoid any conflict between a wildcarded instance and
> a
> wired down one probed later.
> 
> [...]
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Nothing easy.

Hi,

Would it be possible to extend autoconf to allow ranges instead of just
one number for wired down devices. For example:


scsibus4 at umass0
sd8 at scsibus4

may become:


scsibus[4-5] at umass[0-1]
sd[8-9] at scsibus[4-5]

Is it good idea (if it cannot already be done)? Is this feasible and
what changes would be needed?

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