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Writing Windows Device Drivers with C

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mrgruve

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Feb 19, 2002
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Has anyone ever used C to write device drivers? Are there any "to the point" tutorials or books on using C to write device drivers? Any help at all will be appreciated.
 
Yes: one of the nice features of C is void*. You can put anything there and get anything out. Very error prone but absolutely brilliant for device drivers.

Try This is for Linux.

Basically the API requires a few entry points: attach, open, read, write, close, detach, misc. Some don't have attach and detach.
 
thanks for the info, xwb. gonna check out the link you provided. will let you know how things are progressing.
 
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