Just because the device name is appearing in device manager, it doesn’t mean
that the driver is loaded. In the sense until you start it manually,
DriverEntry point will not be called.
So in your case, the driver you installed is not yet loaded but can
be started by you manually.
cheers
Seshu.
From: Shiva Prasad. T. S.[SMTP:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Reply To: NT Developers Interest List
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:01 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Driver Name visible in Device Manager!!! with no
- device
hI,
U are absolutely right…
<<“Hardware need not be present. You can just write a driver which just
responds to your IOCTL calls but is still a kernel mode one. That will
surely appear in the Device Manager though no h/w is associated it.”>>I would like to know how exactly this happens…
without hardware present,how do pnp manager loads such kernel drivers…or
is it loaded by someother system components…regards,
shiv
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