From: Roddy, Mark [Mark_Roddy@stratus.com]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 8:30 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Helping module for NDIS in the kernel ??

You could build an EXPORT_DRIVER (TARGETTYPE=EXPORT_DRIVER  in your sources
file.) This will be a 'kernel mode dll' with a driver entry routine that
loads like a standard (NT4 legacy) driver. As a dll it can export functional
interfaces that your ndis driver can then import. If one of these interfaces
provides a method for your ndis driver to export its own back to your kernel
dll, then you have a bi-directional procedural interface between both
modules.
 
One has to ask: "why bother" as if you are writing both the ndis driver and
the kernel dll then whatever functionality you are assigning to the dll
could just as readily be assigned to the ndis driver. If this is just to
avoid ndis restrictions on what NT kernel APIs are available, I could be
wrong here, but aren't there ways to build ndis drivers that allow one to be
non-portable and use any of the nt ddk api? The only major advantage such an
arrangement has is that the dll can persist over time while your ndis
drivers come and go, preserving state information that might otherwise be
more difficult to reconstruct.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gopikrishna Prabhakar Yadappanavar
[mailto:gopikrishna.yadappanavar@wipro.com]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 6:00 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Helping module for NDIS in the kernel ??


 
Hi friends 
 
I want to write one module (lets call it a module now ) which should
 
    a) sit in the kernel.
    b) interact with an NDIS miniport driver, meaning import & export  some
functions with the NDIS 
        Driver.
    c)  handle requests from application programs for configuration
settings.
    d) hold its data and 
    e) exist as an independent entity aiding NDIS Driver.
 
I have written the NDIS Miniport driver but don't know how to implement the
module !!
How should I implement this module ? Kernel - mode DLL or NDIS intermediate
driver or any other ??
 
Please throw some light on this ...
 
regards
Gopikrishna


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