Posted Jan 27, 2011 15:00 UTC (Thu) by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238)
Parent article: LCA: Server power management
"This problem has been solved by polling the hardware once every second; (...) one second of latency before the system responds to the plugging-in of a new USB device. Since, as Matthew noted, that one second is probably less than the user already lost while trying to insert the plug upside-down, it shouldn't be a problem. "