Hello,

may somebody advices me. If driver doesn't provide some
hardware devices and provide only some monitoring, must
has this driver object PNP & Power dispatch routines?

Thanks.

No you can develop an NT 4.0 style driver and run it on
Windows 2000/XP/2003. Note this will not appear in the
device manager, needs a different setup (uses the service
control manager) and could in a future system not work.

It is also not that hard to take the toaster sample with PNP
and Power and put your desired functionality into this as
a framework.

Finally, what ever you do, try to keep your functionality
seperate as possbile. Microsoft is coming out with new
technologies such as a driver framework, that should handle
the PNP and Power for a simple driver, keeping your code
seperate will make it easier to migrate if you desire.


Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting

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