In message <199810020404.GAA09227@horn.ics.muni.cz>, Zdenek Salvet writes:
>SVR4ish IRIX 6.4 on our Origin has changed SCSI controller numbers
>after applying patches to the OS and screwed us even though we had not
>moved any hardware before :-(

Ugh.  It's not perfect, admittedly...

Hey, this could be another use for something similar to BSD/OS's
'boot.default', if we allowed that to specify or override orders or
probes.
	-probe scsibus0 at aic0

>I strongly prefer current NetBSD naming scheme, kernel config is
>much more expressive than integer quadruple.

It may be, but it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild kernels to tweak
things a little.  :)

-s