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For built-in miniport drivers, the system calls the miniport driver's reset handler function when a power-up event starts. The MiniportReset handler should issue a hardware reset to the peripheral and reset the driver's software state.

If more explicit power handling is required, for example, to power off the peripheral from the miniport, the miniport could register itself as a stream interface driver and receive notifications when power-down and power-up system events occur. This option should only be used if the platform does not perform the necessary power handling of the peripheral in the OEM adaptation layer (OAL). In addition, miniport drivers that register as stream interface drivers should call only raw I/O functions in the power handler.

See Also

NDIS Support for Power Management | MiniportReset

 Last updated on Tuesday, May 18, 2004

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