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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:37:13 +0300
From: Shahar Havivi <shaharh@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Added monitor commands:
	'keyboard_set' and 'info keybaord'
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To: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:58:14PM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:58:14 +0200
> From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
> To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Cc: Shahar Havivi <shaharh@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Added monitor commands: 'keyboard_set'
> 	and 'info keybaord'
> 
> Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> writes:
> >> I still think that adding an "id" property as in markus proposal would
> >> be neat.  Otherwise I don't know how you are going to distinguish
> >> between two keyboards with the same name.
> >
> > If I understand the patch correctly (only time for a quick skim today),
> > the keyboard receives a numeric ID when it is created, and keyboard_set
> > identifies it by that ID.  Yes, a user-defined ID would be nicer, and
> > consistent with how similar things work.  But the numeric ID isn't
> > *wrong*, as far as I can see.
> 
> my problem is that if you add two keyboards of the same type, they will
> receive random index (different ones), now you do info keyboard, and you
> see two keyboard with the same names and different numbers, how do you
> know which of the two given you want to choose?
> 
> And no, I don't have magic bullet to make multimonitor/keyboard/mouse
> behave as expected out of given them right id's.
> 
> Later, Juan.
You right, this is a problem.
As I see it id cannot be force to receive by the user right?

Thanks, Shahar.