Windows® 2000 Device Driver Book: A Guide for Programmers, Second Edition, The

Chapter 6. Initialization and Cleanup Routines

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

• Writing a DriverEntry Routine

• Code Example: Driver Initialization

• Writing Reinitialize Routines

• Writing an Unload Routine

• Code Example: Driver Unload

• Writing Shutdown Routines

• Testing the Driver

• Summary

Everything has to start somewhere. In the case of a Windows 2000 kernel-mode driver, the starting point is a function called DriverEntry. This chapter shows how to write a DriverEntry routine along with various other pieces of initialization and cleanup code. At the conclusion of this chapter, a minimal driver is produced that can actually load into the system.