On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Erik Slagter wrote:

quoted

this is very likely bug in HAL -- please see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=344872

Negative ;-)
A few moments ago I rebooted with HAL disabled and without going into X. I
unplugged the hub that has the mouse and keyboard attached and plugged it back
in again, a few times. Once again every time higher event handlers were
assigned.

That is OK. But you shouldn't run into the situation when you run out of 
the free evdev devices.

-- 
Jiri Kosina