I get the following bug from the WDK build 5112 version of PREFast: myfile.c(405) : warning 412: Potential buffer overrun while writing to 'nameBuffer': the writable size is...

I am currently working on a product that requires full access to the keyboard and mouse information from the drivers. We are only concerned with USB since we are building custom devices that are...

Where are the docs for the compiler and the linker? Since the DDK comes with its own build tools, shouldn't include full docs? I see of course, docs for the build utility, but not for the compiler,...

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Hi All, While doing IoGetDeviceObjectPointer after getting the symbolic name using IoGetDeviceInterfaces for a Pci driver I am getting STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_SYNTAX_BAD error. The same code works fine...

Hi, - I have written a function driver that communicate with a user-mode application, on some scenarios after unloading the function driver ( using the ServiceManager ) the user-mode process hangs...

I have written a bus driver, starting with Toaster as a reference. in one of the PDO's I created, I get a IRP_MN_START_DEVICE, and I see that the stack.stack.StartDevice.AllocatedResources...

How in a driver can i get a notification about insertion and removal of any kind Of removable storage (like disk on key)? Does IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification should work ?

The DDK mentions that installing a filter driver in a non-WDM stack requires a reboot. The question is, what exactly is non-WDM in this context? Not PNP? Or the whole stack must be 100% WDM to allow...

Hello everyone, I want to customise my USB mouse driver behavior, so I want to modify the USB mouse driver. Now, where can I find a sample USB mouse driver code (kernel level) for windows2000 and/or...

I am implementing a driver to access SMBus battery charger via I2C controller. It is very unreliable to retrieve the status info from charger. I presume that it may have something to do with the...

I need to port a parallel port device driver (NT STYLE) to xp64. Dows it have to be WDM driver? Thank You

Microsoft says: "Beginning with the Windows Vista operating system, users who are not administrators will not be able to install unsigned...

Hello, I write driver for IEEE 1394 camera. This driver works properly under Windows XP. I used No Backing Store method (it called "Pre-Notification" at DDK help) for packets reception (No MDL, no...

I want to build a library for kernel-mode WDM driver. It can build with VC or .NET and it work, but not sure it is correct. Should I use DDK to build this library ? If yes, have any makefile sample...

I was trying to punt to the GDI Engine in display driver by calling EngXXX functions. For example, calling EngCopyBits in DrvCopyBits function, but unfortunately I got a blue screen. The reason why I...

Hi all, I try to mount a virtual disk (filedisk from http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/) as a user (say user1 - using runas...). But within my session (I am *not* logged on as user1, but as user2), I do...

We have a program (cant go into specifics here) where we want to read one or more hardware IDs (e.g. ethernet MAC address, CPU serial number) and use a hash of it/them as a unique identifier (its not...

Hello, as I described before, my task is to communicate to a usb-device via Bulk-, Isoch-, Control- and probably Interrupt-Transfer. What happened so far: First step was to use a evaluation driver,...

In passthru IM driver MPSend() function is for every sending packet done following: 1. Allocating new packet...