[maemo-developers] dsme, Re: [maemo-developers] Huge bundle O' year-end questions

[From: Tomas Junnonen]

ext Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> I would be interested in fixing this. I'm using bluetooth keyboard with 
> kbdd daemon so the workaround that keyboard applet does in impractical 
> to do directly in kbdd and I don't like making another executable just 
> because of this hack. I'd like to fix it in proper way.  Are dsme 
> sources available?

Unfortunately not :(

> It doesn't look like is should be hard to fix. Or are 
> there some issues that make it non-trivial?

DSME runs from the initfs partition on the device which makes replacing 
it with your custom version not entirely trivial. With bad luck you'll 
brick your device.

> According to this
> http://www.mail-archive.com/maemo-developers@maemo.org/msg00315.html
> sources are not available if dsme and dsmetool is the same thing. Is it?

One's a system daemon, the other a command line utility for it. They're 
of the same package though and share the license.

Regards,
Tomas