Summary of Kernel-Mode Support Routines

This section summarizes the kernel-mode support routines that can be called by kernel-mode drivers.

Support routines are categorized as follows:

• Initialization and Unload
• IRPs
• Synchronization
• Memory
• Plug and Play Routines
• Windows Management Instrumentation Routines
• DMA
• PIO
• Driver-Managed Queues
• Driver-dedicated system threads and system worker threads in Driver System Threads
• Strings
• Data Conversions
• Access to and access rights on driver-managed objects in Access to Driver-Managed Objects
• Error Handling

Some routines are listed in more than one section or subsection of this section.