Re: enumerating PCI devices under Windows

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From: Maxim S. Shatskih (maxim_at_storagecraft.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:24:05 +0300

> Lets suppose that the appropriate drivers for the devices are already
> loaded. And device objects are created.
> My aim is to find them (by enumerating the PCI Bus - like HalGetBusData
> under WinNT) , their devices objects and manipulate them.

For each device object, call IoRegisterDeviceInterface and then
IoSetDeviceInterfaceState.

Then, in user mode, SetupDiGetClassDevs/SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail will
help you. It will return a string suitable for CreateFile. 

-- 
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

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