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IRP_MN_SURPRISE_REMOVAL problem in VISTA
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

Check what you return on IRP_MN_QUERY_PNP_DEVICE_STATE in Vista "Eigil Krogh Sorensen" <EigilS@tcelectronic.com> wrote in message news:%23OXGPQkuHHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

KdPrint or DbgPrint Equivalent for a user-mode driver
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 5 Comments

Should be, so is kernel-level WinDbg - it displays OutputDebugString from all user processes. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

IRQL in IRP_MJ_XXX routines
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 11 Comments

TDI is also such for send/receive (dunno on connects). -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation maxim@storagecraft.com http://www.storagecraft.com

Is there any negative impact of invoking NdisFreeSpinlock on a lock on which NdisAllocateSpinlock was never called? Thanks,-Praveen
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 9 Comments

In Windows CE the NdisFreeSpinlock should be implelemted. -- Vladimir, Windows SDK MVP "Praveen Kumar Amritaluru" <apraveen.kumar@gmail.com> wrote in...

Use an existing kernel-mode driver with a new user-mode driver
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 4 Comments

Thanks for your answers. I am studying the "wiascanr" minidriver sample. I read the "USB Driver" in "Imaging Devices" from the WDK. I saw the CreateFile and an example of the DeviceIoControl. I...

Diff between the IOCTLS
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 7 Comments

Thank you Tim. I understood now "Tim Roberts" wrote:

Please Help with UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices and possible Bus issues
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

On Jun 28, 2:05 pm, Rymfax <cwal...@bigbangllc.com> wrote: Hi, Well, to install your drivers you would need to use the following functions consecutively: SetupDiCreateDeviceInfo()

Setupapi bug
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

ijor wrote: I doubt that it helps. I have reported sevral bugs in the HID API years ago and they are still in the API. When i find time i will check Vista if they persist.

Zero-length packets in isochronous stream
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 9 Comments

"David J. Craig" <dave@yoshimuni.com> wrote: Things don't move that fast. PCI is 12 years old, and yet you can still buy motherboards with ISA slots. Well, it doesn't really cost that much. I...

USB device driver
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 9 Comments

ggurubasavaraja@gmail.com wrote: Well, that's basically what ALL USB devices do. I guess you're telling us that it's not like a disk, it's not an audio device, it's not a video device, it's not a...

Q: Possible to determine sender process?
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments

NDIS operates in arbitrary thread context below the kernel-mode TCP/IP stack. You cannot determine the sender's process in that location. You can only determine process ID in locations where the...

Ndis 6.0 LSO V2 Offload Size
Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I was under the impression that LSO V2 allowed offload of TCP payload > 64K Bytes. However, the DDK shows that the size of the TCP header + payload is provided by the protocol layer in the IP header...

kernel memory hog
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 5 Comments

Unfortunately, this probably isn't the right place to report such issues. We can help you, as the driver writer, if your driver is having problems handling low resource issues but I don't know how...

DPInst vs. devcon
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Thank you, Eliyas. I just needed this little clarification before delving into the material - and you just provided it. Thanks. Don On Jun 27, 1:16 pm, "Eliyas Yakub...

Does a virtual driver need to get Windows certification ?
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 1 Comments

If the device is simulating a standard device class, you should certify for that class. The tests are to show the driver and the hardware do the right thing and interface as expected to the OS,...

Embedded device need Windows certification ?
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hi I've seen D-Link's router got Windows Vista certification , do you know which logo an embedded device ( PDA, IPC , Switch, Router .. ) can get by Windows ? Does such logo have something to do...

KMDF and File System Driver
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 3 Comments

kuasha wrote: The WDK 6000 contains the IFS kit (IFS = Installable File System). This includes one complete disk media filesystem (FAT) sample driver with full source code, plus some documentation....

KeIsExecutingDpc - available on X64
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Replace the code, any one who wrote a piece of code that needed to use that call wrote crap, so to save yourself start over. Use KMDF if possible since it will be easier and priduce a better...

KeWaitForXXX BugCheck in Verifier
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 16 Comments

On Jun 28, 10:55 am, James <James.Smith...@gmail.com> wrote: James, Learn to be polite to everyone, especially the gurus. In addition, before you post your next question, please...

About the vendor input/output of the USB device driver
Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I use KMDF for Vista correspondence with USB device driver. To perform vendor input/output WdfUsbTargetDeviceFormatRequestForControlTransfer() I use but do not understand a method reading only the...