Thanks a lot, Stuart! I forwarded the information upstream.
Unfortunately it does not seem that dmidecode gives us any clue that
this particular USB port is internal only.

David had another question:

> It turns out Windows actually powers down the port for this thing -I asked 
> Alan Stern for a similar mechanism in Linux. See
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/22706
> I wonder how it works on Windows - e.g. is the SD Reader included in the 
> "Safely Remove Hardware" list? And if so, does it require a reboot if you 
> safely remove the device?
> If not, is this because of a .inf file (moral equivalent to udev rules - at 
> least insofar that these files are used for quirks too) or do they parse the 
> DMI data?

Do you happen to have Windows on this machine as well? If so, would be
great if you could test this. If not, don't bother.

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dell mini 10v SD/SDHC slot gets ejected from the USB bus on nautilus 'eject' 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404185
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