Chapter 5. General Development Issues

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

• Driver Design Strategies

• Coding Conventions and Techniques

• Driver Memory Allocation

• Unicode Strings

• Interrupt Synchronization

• Synchronizing Multiple CPUs

• Linked Lists

• Summary

Writing kernel-mode code is not the same as writing an application program because the driver is a trusted component of the system. Code must be carefully written and follow special rules. This chapter is a short manual of good and sometimes required etiquette for driver writers.