Basic structure of WDM driver

Posted on May 20, 2006

(Notes from Oney’s book)

1. a driver is a collection of routines called by OS

DriverEntry, AddDevice
StartIo, AdapterControl, OnInterrupt, DpcForIsr, …
DispatchPnp, DispatchPower, DispatchWmi, DispatchRead, DispatchWrite

2. A Pnp device has an electronic signature that the system can detect
A legacy driver is added by end user through “Add New Hardware”

3. Device and Driver Layer
function driver and bus driver and filter driver

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