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@@ -157,6 +157,13 @@ regression-test load. These are checked on every release.</li>
<li><img src="discontinued.png"/> marks devices that have been
discontinued by their manufacturers.</li>
+
+<li><img src="hotplug.png"/> marks devices which will be recognized by
+the Linux hotplug system when they are plugged in. If you installed
+<tt>gpsd</tt> from a binary package,or did "make udev-install" from
+the source distribution, this should mean you never have to launch
+<tt>gpsd</tt> manually; the usdev syatem will launch it for you when
+it sees a device of this kind go active.</li>
</ul></p>
<p>Note that in most cases (including the <img src="noconfigure.png"/>