Testing the Driver
Even though the Minimal driver is far from being useful, its operation can be verified in several ways. In particular, it can be tested to ensure that it
Compiles and links successfully
Loads and unloads without crashing the system
Creates device objects and Win32 symbolic links
Releases any resources when it unloads
While these goals may not seem very ambitious, they are an important milestone in beginning the construction of the rest of a truly useful driver.
Testing Procedure
While a description of the production-level installation of the device driver must be left until chapter 16, a manual installation of the Minimal driver can be performed now. The disk accompanying this book includes a useful tool that makes this job much ...
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