I’ve been spending the last couple of days tracking down a bug in a driver I am writing. The effort reminded me of how great tags on memory allocations and frees can be. Also, the work reminded me that there are at least a couple of features Microsoft...
I wrote previously that drivers should use the event log. This time I am going to give some things to consider when using events. The challenge for using the event log is that many components use it poorly. The two common problems are superfluous messages...
Do you use the event log in your driver? Event logging should be standard in almost every driver, yet few drivers support logging. Event logging is the place to record anomalous conditions and events that are detected by your code. Specifically, it is...