[dizzey]

Input devices should be hotplugable like on the xbox. if i trip over usb cord to my xbox remote and replug it i need to restart xbmc to get it working again. the same if i put it in sleep mode.

I guess that hal and dbus could work.

[topfs2]

You need to give abit more info but from what I can tell that's not XBMC's fault. That's linux drivers that doesn't support hotplugging.
Most HW is hotpluggable in linux, keyboard, mouse and I think a configured LIRC is aswell.

[dizzey]

Well actuly the linux drivers seems to work, in a hotpluging state.
it is just xbmc that needs a restart dmesg shows the device loading and unloading.
but hmms seems that you are kind of right

http://pastebin.com/f7bbfe4fd

as seen by dmesg it shows up as another input device when it gets reconected
in this case input 5 instead of input 4. but then restarting xbmc makes xbmc seeing the controller at the new adress. so a hal layer that detected new input devices should still be a great thing for xbmc.

in the same maner that xbmc can handel usb masstorage devices via hotplug

[Razor_109]

hmm i notice the Xpad (controller) indeed needs a restart of XBMC to work.. or is this just my problem?