Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ps2: migrate ledstate

[Juan Quintela]

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.