Hi! For a long time there was the problem that while upon inserting an USB keyboard the HID driver was auto-loaded OK, the mousedev, joydev, etc drivers were not. This patch implements (among other things) hotplugging for the input subsystem. I can provide some docs if it isn't obvious how it works. It'd be nice if someone could add support for this to the hotplug tools. Patch attached, you can try it out, it's against 2.4.10. Hotplug for gameport and serio subsystems will follow sometime later ... -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs