| > You could make something similar to what I did for USB, and introduce a
| > device that reports events, like hardware attach and detach.

  Shouldn't all that be abstracted into a generic "event" framework,
where interested parties could register to be notified about a certain
type of event, and which would handle all those "hardware has appeared/
disappeared", "power lost", "disk gone bad", "processor overheating" etc?

  Or is that just too generic to be of any use?

	mjl