Questions about EngDeviceIoControl

NTDEV
1

  1. What are the IRQL restrictions on callers of EngDeviceIoControl?

  2. Can a private IOCTL send by EngDeviceIoControl use METHOD_NEITHER?

Thanks,

Dmitriy Budko
VMware

2

  1. It has to be at passive at least for XP/w2k because videoprt.sys
    serializes most I/O to a surface by means of a mutex (or event, can’t
    remember, but it’s not a spinlock fer sure)

  2. NEITHER is fine as long as the consumer knows how to deal with it.

Calvin Guan
NetXtreme NTX Miniport
Broadcom Corporation
Connecting Everything(r)

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Subject: [ntdev] Questions about EngDeviceIoControl

  1. What are the IRQL restrictions on callers of EngDeviceIoControl?

  2. Can a private IOCTL send by EngDeviceIoControl use METHOD_NEITHER?

Thanks,

Dmitriy Budko
VMware

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