I’ve never wrote that fundamental education is a bad thing or
that OSR classes are anything less than excellent.
My reply was given only to the OP in his specific situation and in no means
should be understood as general advice against any cources.
I beg for just a little common sense before jumping on me.
The OP asked a question on this list, so he already does
know about OSR classes. He already got advices to
take a class. So what is the chance he takes the class right now?
My bet is 0%.
Why?
Among other reasons - because the nearest WDM seminar starts only on 16 Aug.
and NDIS is not in the outline.
The guy can’t sit and do nothing for 1.5 months.
Sincere regards to the OSR team.
–pa
“M. M. O’Brien” wrote in message
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> +1
>
> Also (pardon my amending THE OSR MASTER), it’s about knowing where to
> start,
> both in terms of the actual coding, but also and equally importantly, the
> docs and tools. Knowing that takes a HUGE bite out of the learning curve,
> especially for something like, say, WinDbg. Not exactly hard to spend one
> week in the windbg docs and get, you know, nowhere, whereas MVP Snoone
> will
> set you straight, at least as far as getting going.
>
>
>
> mm
>
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> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: RE:[ntdev] Re: need advice learning driver development
>
>
>
> I think that is EXCEPTIONALLY BAD advice. Epic bad. And obviously from
> somebody who has no clue what we teach in our seminars.
>
> What’s ALL IMPORTANT is understanding the architecture… what the role of
> your driver is in the overall system, how it gets requests and how it
> services them. Everything else is trivia. You can look up the names of
> the
> functions, get sample INF files… but if you don’t know that you can’t
> touch pageable memory at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL, you’re screwed plain and
> simple. If you don’t understand the concept of execution context
> (specific
> and arbitrary) you are totally fucked.
>
> The fact that you call IoCompleteRequest or WdfRequestComplete or
> NdisMXxxxx
> doesn’t matter. What matters is that you understand the environment in
> which your solution is operating, and the constraints within which that
> solution must be crafted.
>
> Peter
> OSR
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