Writing Filter Drivers
A filter driver is a special type of intermediate driver. Filter drivers perform their work surreptitiously. They sit on top of some other driver and intercept requests directed at the lower driver's Device objects. Users of the lower driver are completely unaware that their requests are being preprocessed or intercepted by the filter driver. Some examples of the use of filter drivers include the following:
Filters allow modification of some aspect of an existing driver's behavior without rewriting the entire driver. SCSI filter drivers work this way.
Filters make it easier to hide the limitations of lower-level device drivers. For example, a filter could split large transfers into smaller pieces before passing them on ...
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