Hello Eitan,
Two pair of eyes are better than one!
Anyway, reading a bit further of what you read:
"The "only NDIS APIs" rule is meant to cover areas that are more central to
networking, like DMA, interrupts, DPCs, and IRPs. For that sort of thing,
miniport drivers must either go through NDIS,
Sam,
I think Microsoft official recommendation is to NDIS wrapper calls (for
certification).
I came across the following when I read same the thread you pointed out:
"I remember an invigorated discussion here some time ago regarding the
necessity to use NDIS APIs inside NDIS drivers in order t
Hello Eitan,
Just found this (it is an answer on a thread, not true doc, but may be helpful):
"I would actually suggest avoiding the NdisAllocateMemory* APIs for general
pool allocations, and going straight to the ExAllocate APIs. There's nothing
interesting going on in the NDIS APIs, and the k
Hi Sam,
Since the switch extension driver is an NDIS filter driver it would be
preferable to use NDIS memory allocation functions rather direct executive
system calls.
On another thing: since this driver is basically two combined drivers
(Extension and WFP) it would be nice if we could pass
