From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFp0X-00042L-9g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:21:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFp0W-0004E3-3R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:21:41 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFp0V-0004Dy-Rd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:21:40 -0400 From: Juan Quintela In-Reply-To: <4E9C4691.2080405@redhat.com> (Gerd Hoffmann's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:15:29 +0200") References: <1318851454-22335-1-git-send-email-quintela@redhat.com> <4E9C2F8D.4050105@codemonkey.ws> <4E9C4691.2080405@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:21:31 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ps2: migrate ledstate Reply-To: quintela@redhat.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: cfergeau@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >>> We only need to migrate the state when it is different of the default >>> one (0). >> >> Er, isn't it going to be different from the default in like 99% of >> circumstances? > > Why? caps lock and scroll lock are off usually. numlock depends on > what the user prefers. In case he cares in the first place of > course. I expect most users don't and just go with the default. > > On my physical machines numlock is off by default. Likewise in my > virtual machines: SeaBIOS keeps it off by default, and Linux+Windows > guests don't muck with it at boot. > > I remember physical machines used to have numlock on by default in the > 90ies. They even had a BIOS Setup option to pick the initial numlock > state. That seems to be out-fashioned these days though, I havn't > seen that for quite a while now ... I have nothing else to add. This is exactly my point. I think that I have _never_ setup NumLock by default in any of my machines. And capslock use is very, very sporadic. In my case, it would be 0 about 99.9% of the time. Later, Juan.