Hi, Since the last update, my usb mouse is found half the time, at boot. I don't know deep how hotplug works, but here are events on many unplug/plug. I don't know if the devname increment is really what it should be : HOTPLUG_TIME='Sat Aug 19 10:34:38 CEST 2006' PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb1/1-1 SUBSYSTEM=usb_device HOTPLUG_ARGS= DEVPATH=/class/usb_device/usbdev1.3 MINOR=2 HOTPLUG_TYPE=usb_device ACTION=remove UDEV_LOG=3 MAJOR=189 UDEVD_EVENT=1 DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/003 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usb PHYSDEVBUS=usb SEQNUM=618 HOTPLUG_TIME='Sat Aug 19 10:34:43 CEST 2006' PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb1/1-1 SUBSYSTEM=usb_device HOTPLUG_ARGS= DEVPATH=/class/usb_device/usbdev1.4 MINOR=3 HOTPLUG_TYPE=usb_device ACTION=add UDEV_LOG=3 MAJOR=189 UDEVD_EVENT=1 DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/004 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usb PHYSDEVBUS=usb SEQNUM=624 HOTPLUG_TIME='Sat Aug 19 10:35:16 CEST 2006' PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb1/1-1 SUBSYSTEM=usb_device HOTPLUG_ARGS= DEVPATH=/class/usb_device/usbdev1.4 MINOR=3 HOTPLUG_TYPE=usb_device ACTION=remove UDEV_LOG=3 MAJOR=189 UDEVD_EVENT=1 DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/004 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usb PHYSDEVBUS=usb SEQNUM=628 HOTPLUG_TIME='Sat Aug 19 10:35:19 CEST 2006' PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb1/1-1 SUBSYSTEM=usb_device HOTPLUG_ARGS= DEVPATH=/class/usb_device/usbdev1.5 MINOR=4 HOTPLUG_TYPE=usb_device ACTION=add UDEV_LOG=3 MAJOR=189 UDEVD_EVENT=1 DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/005 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usb PHYSDEVBUS=usb SEQNUM=634 HOTPLUG_TIME='Sat Aug 19 10:35:37 CEST 2006' PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb1/1-1 SUBSYSTEM=usb_device HOTPLUG_ARGS= DEVPATH=/class/usb_device/usbdev1.5 MINOR=4 HOTPLUG_TYPE=usb_device ACTION=remove UDEV_LOG=3 MAJOR=189 UDEVD_EVENT=1 DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/005 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usb PHYSDEVBUS=usb SEQNUM=638 HOTPLUG_TIME='Sat Aug 19 10:35:40 CEST 2006' PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb1/1-1 SUBSYSTEM=usb_device HOTPLUG_ARGS= DEVPATH=/class/usb_device/usbdev1.6 MINOR=5 HOTPLUG_TYPE=usb_device ACTION=add UDEV_LOG=3 MAJOR=189 UDEVD_EVENT=1 DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/006 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usb PHYSDEVBUS=usb SEQNUM=644
sys-apps/hotplug is useless with any recent udev version, and 2.4 kernels are no longer supported. Unmerge it and move on. WONTFIX.