[wdmaudiodev] Re: Is it a good design to include KMDF APIs in WDM based Miniport Audio drivers !
- From: Girish Pattabiraman <girish.pattabiraman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:39:16 -0800
You can definitely use KMDF APIs within a WDM driver.
This has been showcased in the latest sample Audio driver "sysvad"
published along with the WDK for windows 8.1.
Samples can be downloaded here:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Windows-8-Driver-Samples-5e1aa62e
Regards,
Girish
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Tim Roberts <timr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> maraboina suneeth wrote:
> >
> > I work on audio miniport drivers which need to talk to a KMDF based
> > driver. When I tried to use WDM based APIs to send IOCTL it never
> > seems to be working. But when I tried to use KMDF APIs then everything
> > was working fine but I'm not sure if its a good design to use KMDF
> > APIsinside a WDM based drivers. I would appreciate if someone could
> > answer what are the drawbacks/repercussions of this approach.
>
> Your question doesn't make sense. First, all of the KMDF APIs
> eventually call WDM APIs. KMDF only works within your driver: all
> inter-driver communication is done through WDM. Second, you can't use
> ANY KMDF APIs inside a WDM driver.
>
> Why don't you show us some of your WDM code, and we'll take a look?
> This kind of problem is often caused by calling IoCallDriver with the
> wrong device object. In a miniport, it can sometimes be tricky to
> figure out which device object to use.
>
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> Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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