> IMHO only few users have more than one SCSI controllers and I think we can
>ask them to specify BIOS number for the disk they want to boot from manually.
Umm. I personally have 5 systems with multiple SCSI controllers, and
I'm not the only person I know of who does this.
> Anyway, I've written a patch to PCI subsystem which uses BIOS ordering
>while still using direct hw access for touching configuration registers,
>but I think we should remove all this compatibility glue in 2.3.
It's a Bad Thing to order controllers differently from the way the BIOS
orders them, because it violates the principle of least surprises.
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