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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:55 PM
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Subject: [ntdev] Re: 3rd party Device driver development tool or-
pure wdm driver development…Which is the best???Let us not confuse the issue of using a toolkit or class library with
having
a set of “samples… written by experts.”
Exactly. It reminds me how I had to write some VxDs. We didn’t have VToolsd
and I had to start with plain w95 DDK which was rather painful. Later I got
VToolsd bundled with some NuMega software and both samples and wrappers
implementation helped me. I didn’t rewrite my VxDs using it; instead, I only
examined samples and wrappers. I agree a toolkit can be valuable this way,
that reusable code is great idea (do we really need C++ for this purpose?)
but have doubts about yet another level of abstraction. When I had real
problems with my drivers, I spent a lot of time tracing through kernel code
in assembly trying to understand how things work and why. It was hard enough
without next level of complexity.
Best regards,
Michal Vodicka
STMicroelectronics Design and Application s.r.o.
[michal.vodicka@st.com, http:://www.st.com]
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