udev 070 and coldplugged usb mice

[Anthony Awtrey <tony@idealcorp.com>]

I have a tablet device with an internally connected usb mouse pointer
running Debian unstable. I'm using linux kernel version 2.6.13.2 and
Marco's debian unstable package udev-0.070-3. That udev package
conflicts out the hotplug package completely which may have done the
coldplugging correctly before.

Neither the usb driver for the mouse, nor the general PS/2 mousedev
driver load automatically at boot time. I've gotten around this by
running an ugly hack coldplug catchup script as the last run-level S script:

  for i in /sys/bus/*/*/*/modalias
  do
    modprobe `cat $i`
  done
  modprobe mousedev

I see udevsynthesize is running during the udev init script and the
devices are showing up as expected under the /sys/bus/* directories even
when the usb modules don't loading automatically. Should udev
automatically load all drivers via udevsynthesize without some kind of
additional coldplugging hack? Or is this expected behaviour?

T
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