Getting hotplug to work with busybox

Today I enabled hotplug support for my thinclient installation. That was not that tricky, but some of debian's hotplug scripts use commands or regular expressions that can't be handled when using busybox.
I had to modify two files, /etc/hotplug/usb.rc and /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent (I don't know if these are the only two files to modify, but at the moment I don't need more functionality from hotplug):

--- usb.rc.orig 2005-05-31 10:11:19.585542257 +0200
+++ usb.rc      2005-05-31 10:13:04.817216587 +0200
@@ -108,7 +108,12 @@
            case "$device" in
                *:*) continue;;
            esac
-           devlink=$(readlink -f $device)
+           # modification for busybox, because busybox's readlink does not
+           # support the -f option
+           # devlink=$(readlink -f $device)
+           devlink=$(readlink $device)
+           devlink=$(echo $devlink | sed 's/^\.\.\/\.\.\/\.\.\//\/sys\//')
+           # end of modification
            DEVPATH=${devlink#/sys}

            ./usb.agent
@@ -116,7 +121,12 @@

        # interface events
        for device in /sys/bus/usb/devices/[0-9]*:*; do
-           devlink=$(readlink -f $device)
+           # modification for busybox, because busybox's readlink does not
+           # support the -f option
+           # devlink=$(readlink -f $device)
+           devlink=$(readlink $device)
+           devlink=$(echo $devlink | sed 's/^\.\.\/\.\.\/\.\.\//\/sys\//')
+           # end of modification
            DEVPATH=${devlink#/sys}

            bDeviceClass=$((0x$(cat $devlink/../bDeviceClass)))

--- firmware.agent.orig 2005-05-31 10:11:27.646215495 +0200
+++ firmware.agent      2005-05-31 10:14:12.707033483 +0200
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
 FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware"

 # mountpoint of sysfs
-SYSFS=$(sed -n '/^.* \([^ ]*\) sysfs .*$/ { s//\1/p ; q }' /proc/mounts)
+# modification for busybox, because busybox's sed can't handle this regex
+# SYSFS=$(sed -n '/^.* \([^ ]*\) sysfs .*$/ { s//\1/p ; q }' /proc/mounts)
+SYSFS=$(awk "-F " '/^sysfs/ { print $2 } ' /proc/mounts)
+# end of modification

 # use /proc for 2.4 kernels
 if [ "$SYSFS" = "" ]; then

Update 2005-06-14: Today I downloaded a daily snapshot of busybox and was very pleased to see, that the readlink-plugin now supports the -f option, so the patch to usb.rc is obsolete. The problem with firmware.agent persists though.