Last Update: 9 May 2024 (16:30 US Eastern Time — see bottom of the blog post for summary of updates) TL;DR Starting sometime with Windows 11 Microsoft changed Windows Driver Verifier to no lo…| OSR
It’s great that your driver passes Code Analysis! But do you know that even the “Driver Recommended” rule set leaves out a lot of useful tests? We are indeed extremely fortunate to have the tooling that is available to us for Windows driver development. Static tools such as Code Analysis (CA) and Static Driver Verifier […]| OSR
It took “a while” but, without any fanfare, sometime in May of 2022, Microsoft released a version of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) that supports Visual Studio (VS) 2022. This version is referred to as the Windows 11 Version 22H2 WDK. This new version of the WDK is only support on VS 2022. It cannot […]| OSR
Times change. People, even engineers, eventually “clue up.” As people become sensitive to the negative impact that the names of things can have on those who don’t share their own ethnic, racial, cultural, or social background, they get on board with the idea of changing those names. Sometimes the changes are simple; As easy as […]| OSR
At some point recently (“recently” being defined as “in the last year or so”) the WDK started whining at me with the following warning: It insists that I should specify PnPLockdown=1 in my INF. What IS this warning, does it matter, and do you really want to do what it advises? Here’s the scoop. What […]| OSR