I see this bug was moved to linux-2.6. However, there is also a udev bug #350235 filed for the same problem. While it appears there is a major udev component (the UI always gets the heat), it also appears to be a kernel component as well since a kernel oops was reported. Since this bug has been moved to the kernel folks, I suppose it will serve to track the oops. I've attached the oops that I encountered after removing the device in case it helps (which was followed by the system hanging after reinserting the device--the reboot is indicated with the syslogd restart line).
This is with a Dazzle 4 in 1 Card Adapter that I just got. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350235. Mar 8 14:15:14 olgas kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 Mar 8 14:15:14 olgas kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 Mar 8 14:15:14 olgas kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2... Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: hde: Memory Card Adapter, CFA DISK drive Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: ide2 at 0x4100-0x4107,0x410e on irq 3 Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: hde: max request size: 128KiB Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: hde: 256000 sectors (131 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=500/16/32 Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: hde: cache flushes not supported Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: hde: hde1 Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: ide-cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0 Mar 8 14:15:15 olgas kernel: hde: hde1 Mar 8 14:15:46 olgas last message repeated 331 times Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas last message repeated 114 times Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: pccard: card ejected from slot 1 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00312074 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: printing eip: Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: c0137894 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: *pde = 00000000 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Oops: 0000 [#2] Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Modules linked in: ide_cs ath_pci ath_rate_sample ath_hal sd_mod usb_storage scsi_mod ppp_deflate zlib_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async ppp_generic slhc apm thinkpad radeon drm rfcomm l2cap ipv6 lp usblp iptable_raw iptable_mangle ipt_ULOG ipt_TTL ipt_ttl ipt_TOS ipt_tos ipt_TCPMSS ipt_tcpmss ipt_state ipt_sctp ipt_SAME ipt_REJECT ipt_REDIRECT ipt_recent ipt_realm ipt_pkttype ipt_physdev ipt_owner ipt_NOTRACK ipt_NETMAP ipt_multiport ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_MARK ipt_mark ipt_mac ipt_LOG ipt_limit ipt_length ipt_iprange ipt_helper ipt_hashlimit ipt_esp ipt_ECN ipt_ecn ipt_DSCP ipt_dscp ipt_conntrack ipt_CONNMARK ipt_connmark ipt_comment ipt_CLUSTERIP ipt_CLASSIFY ipt_ah ipt_addrtype ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables wlan_wep wlan ircomm_tty ircomm nvram pcmcia firmware_class hci_usb bluetooth irtty_sir sir_dev irda joydev crc_ccitt yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core flop Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: y evdev psmouse serio_raw mousedev i2c_i801 i2c_core hw_random snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd intel_agp soundcore pcspkr agpgart parport_pc parport shpchp pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc rtc ext3 jbd mbcache ide_disk ide_generic uhci_hcd usbcore e1000 piix generic ide_core processor Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: CPU: 0 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: EIP: 0060:[put_page+4/105] Tainted: P VLI Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203 (2.6.15-1-686) Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: EIP is at put_page+0x4/0x69 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: eax: ebf9f9a0 ebx: dfd75380 ecx: f74a1cc0 edx: 00312074 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: esi: 00000001 edi: dfd75380 ebp: 000007e8 esp: c1afddf8 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Process hald (pid: 8009, threadinfo=c1afc000 task=dfcca550) Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Stack: c020ae98 00312074 dfd75380 f74a1b40 c020aed6 dfd75380 00000018 c025a57e Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: dfd75380 c1afde74 00000000 00000018 00000001 00000001 ffffffa1 00000000 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: 00001f4a 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000040 c1afde94 f78a8080 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Call Trace: Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [skb_release_data+81/132] skb_release_data+0x51/0x84 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [kfree_skbmem+11/103] kfree_skbmem+0xb/0x67 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [unix_stream_recvmsg+668/887] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x29c/0x377 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [sock_aio_read+250/265] sock_aio_read+0xfa/0x109 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [do_sync_read+184/235] do_sync_read+0xb8/0xeb Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [do_pollfd+56/120] do_pollfd+0x38/0x78 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [autoremove_wake_function+0/58] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [do_poll+77/171] do_poll+0x4d/0xab Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [vfs_read+175/312] vfs_read+0xaf/0x138 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [sys_read+59/100] sys_read+0x3b/0x64 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: [sysenter_past_esp+84/117] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Mar 8 14:15:56 olgas kernel: Code: 12 00 e9 1c fe ff ff 8d 05 4c b6 32 c0 e8 81 b1 12 00 e9 8c fe ff ff 8d 05 4c b6 32 c0 e8 71 b1 12 00 e9 a2 fe ff ff 8b 54 24 04 <8b> 02 f6 c4 40 74 31 8b 52 0c 8b 02 89 d1 f6 c4 40 74 03 8b 4a Mar 8 14:16:11 olgas kernel: <5>pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 Mar 8 14:16:11 olgas kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 Mar 8 14:16:11 olgas kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2... 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