Perhaps one of the problem of that approach is : if the user booted up with all things alredy plugged in how do we get all the devices IDs we need? Moreover the lookup table and the parser can be quite hairy but in a first try we can just do something really simplistic, and complicate that after (this would be more user friendly as X would be smarter and would not bother the user because he did not recognize her device)
We'll need a driver manager(tm) that will, when X comes up, forms an inventory of plugged in hardware. Under Linux, this means scanning through the procfs (or sysfs) "bus" directory trees. (Of course, it won't know about those pesky RS-232 based devices!) This manager would also respond to hotplug events.
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