Writing a DriverEntry Routine
Every Windows 2000 kernel-mode or WDM driver, regardless of its purpose, has to expose a routine whose name is DriverEntry. This routine initializes various driver data structures and prepares the environment for all the other driver components.
Execution Context
The I/O Manager calls a DriverEntry routine once it loads the driver. As Table 6.1 shows, the DriverEntry routine runs at PASSIVE_LEVEL IRQL, which means it has access to page system resources.
The DriverEntry routine receives a pointer to its own driver object, which it must initialize. It also receives a UNICODE_STRING containing the path to the driver's service key in the Registry. WDM drivers have little use for this registry name. Kernel-mode drivers ...
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