>>> Of course, if we were to head THIS direction, we should first make
>>> it possible for the system to dynamically add a new device when it
>>> gets connected,
>> Wot ? Like StunOS has been doing for at least 6 years ?

I've been using SunOS for at least six years and I've never seen
anything of the sort.  In my experience, all the devices you want to
use have to be configured at kernel build time - if you didn't
explicitly configure a disk at target 4, that kernel will not accept a
disk at target 4.  Nothing like "sd* at scsibus? target ? lun ?".

The closest I've seen is that SunOS finds all configured devices at
boot time, regardless of whether they're actually present.  If one
isn't, and you then connect it and try to access it, it'll work.  But
this is not at all the same thing as taking one and the same kernel and
hooking up a disk at target 4, then next boot having a cdrom there, or
a tape drive, and having it work.  (Or even picking it up at run time,
with SCIOCREPROBE.)

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