Re: Serial Upper Filter Driver Help Required

From: Old Codger (OldCodger101_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 03:43:14 -0700

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message news:<eYLI2dDoEHA.3488@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> > Can you explain this further please? I had thought that my driver
> > could be loaded and attached to the stack and then detached and
> > unloaded again as long as nothing else has attached on top of it.
>
> No. You need to shutdown the stack to detach the driver.

What does IoDetachDevice do then?
Does this not return the stack to the same state it was in before I
attached my device?

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