[Code Project] Driver Development Part 1: Introduction to Drivers (in Windows)

Introduction

This tutorial will attempt to describe how to write a simple device driver for Windows NT. There are various resources and tutorials on the internet for writing device drivers, however, they are somewhat scarce as compared to writing a “hello world” GUI program for Windows. This makes the search for information on starting to write device drivers a bit harder. You may think that if there’s already one tutorial, why do you need more? The answer is that more information is always better especially when you are first beginning to understand a concept. It is always good to see information from different perspectives. People write differently and describe certain pieces of information in a different light depending on how familiar they are with a certain aspect or how they think it should be explained. This being the case, I would recommend anyone who wants to write device drivers not to stop here or somewhere else. Always find a variety of samples and code snippets and research the differences. Sometimes there are bugs and things omitted. Sometimes there are things that are being done that aren’t necessary, and sometimes there’s information incorrect or just incomplete.

This tutorial will describe how to create a simple device driver, dynamically load and unload it, and finally talk to it from user mode.

출처: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/driverdev.aspx