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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ps2: migrate ledstate
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Juan Quintela |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ps2: migrate ledstate |
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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:21:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> 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.