Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC LED state buggy, interop issue

[Pierre Ossman]

On 10/12/16 16:30, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> There are two ways to fix this:
>
>  a) Send an update to the client when the assumption doesn't hold. This
> will most likely be difficult in your case since there is no definite
> point where you can assume a LED change event should have occurred.
>
>  b) Remove the assumption from the code and the protocol.
>
> My vote is for b). Assumptions and side effects are rarely a good idea.
> The downside though is that it will break compatibility with older
> versions of QEMU.

Follow-up: Reading the initial proposal, it does indeed seem that b) was 
the intended behaviour:

https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg165162.html

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