coldplug working better than hotplug (newbee question)

[John Galloway]

Just to complete this, the device that does not show up
on hotplug that does so on coldplug, is the partition
(info.category = volume) on the mmc card.
   -jrg

On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:01 AM, John Galloway wrote:

> I'm running hal 0.5.5.1 with dbus 0.36.2 udev 0.64 and a
> 2.6.12 kernel on an arm cpu.  I find Hal's enumeration/description
> of devices is better if the device in question (an mmc
> card) is plugged in when hald is started as opposed to
> plugging it in later.  It sees it in both cases, but the coldplug
> case gets the volumes vs devices better while the hotplug
> case seems to miss some capabilities.  I've seen a few posts
> talking about the reverse (hotplug seeing what coldplug does
> not), but has the other way around been seen?  Any pointers to
> what might be causing such?
>   -jrg