From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1bwX-0002Or-IQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:43:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1bwV-00005x-Kr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:43:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1bwV-00005t-Cm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: <51EE7A78.1070202@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:43:36 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20130531123117.GA8400@t430s.nay.redhat.com> <20130614054641.GA30532@t430s.nay.redhat.com> <20130617090158.66667be9@redhat.com> <87mwqd6q6m.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20130702064948.GB5880@amosk.info> In-Reply-To: <20130702064948.GB5880@amosk.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] ps2: add support of auto-repeat List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amos Kong Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, Anthony Liguori , lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com, quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Paolo Bonzini , Luiz Capitulino , lersek@redhat.com On 07/02/13 08:49, Amos Kong wrote: > Actually it's not a urgent/necessary request. Host provided > auto-repeat works, and we didn't have real application of holding > key by sendkey command now. So it's a solution for a non-existing problem ... Which guests do care about the hardware repeat rate in the first place? I know linux emulates it in software for a loooooooooong time (IIRC basically since usb keyboards exist). I wouldn't be surprised if other guests do the same. So I think we should simply not worry about it ;) cheers, Gerd