Protocol Driver Entry and Initialization (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/6/2010
The Device.exe file loads NDIS protocol drivers through the registry. You must set the registry values for the **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\**MyDriver registry key. This key is commonly named after the customized driver and contains the subkeys that appear in the following table.
| Subkey | Content | Description |
|---|---|---|
DLL |
Mydriver.dll |
Name of your driver's dynamic-link library .dll file. |
Order |
dword:3 |
Value that determines when the driver is loaded. This value must be greater than the order value for NDIS. |
Keep |
dword:1 |
Set to 1 to have the driver load at boot time. |
Entry |
MyDriverInitialize |
The entry point for initializing the driver, which will be called at boot time. |
Note
Be sure to set the Order subkey to a value that causes the protocol driver to load after NDIS.
To register the protocol driver with NDIS, the driver should call the NdisRegisterProtocol function within the MyDriverInitialize function.
To register a protocol driver as a stream interface driver, you must call the RegisterDevice function. For a list of the required entry points for stream interface driver DLLs, see Stream Interface Driver Development Concepts.
See Also
Reference
NdisRegisterProtocol
RegisterDevice
Concepts
Protocol Drivers
Stream Interface Driver Development Concepts