Should winedevice.exe in the end be able to load file system drivers as well?

[Paul Vriens]

Hi,

The comment in winedevice.exe says "Service process to load a kernel driver".

But will winedevice.exe in the (far ?) future be the vehicle to load file system 
drivers as well.

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.

Should winedevice.exe in the end be able to load file system drivers as well?

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi Paul,

2008/5/7 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine(a)gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> The comment in winedevice.exe says "Service process to load a kernel driver".
>
> But will winedevice.exe in the (far ?) future be the vehicle to load file system
>  drivers as well.
> I think the idea of loading filesystem drivers is insane at best,
> unless you plan to add a whole vfs layer, or modify the captive driver
> (NTFS binary driver loader for the linux kernel) to work on wine. And
> even that probably depends on the vfs layer. Feel free to correct me
> if I'm wrong.

Cheers,
Maarten.

Should winedevice.exe in the end be able to load file system drivers as well?

[Paul Vriens]

Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> 2008/5/7 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine(a)gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The comment in winedevice.exe says "Service process to load a kernel driver".
> >
> > But will winedevice.exe in the (far ?) future be the vehicle to load file system
> >  drivers as well.
> > I think the idea of loading filesystem drivers is insane at best,
> > unless you plan to add a whole vfs layer, or modify the captive driver
> > (NTFS binary driver loader for the linux kernel) to work on wine. And
> > even that probably depends on the vfs layer. Feel free to correct me
> > if I'm wrong.
>
> Cheers,
> Maarten.

It's not so much that I want the driver to actually work :-).

I was experimenting with Mozy backup (http://mozy.com/) with respect to bug 
12030 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12030).

Installation stalls when the file system driver is installed. Changing 
services.exe to route this driver via winedevice makes the installer work 
"normal" but crashes (of course?) the driver.

When I then remove the patch from services.exe and try to start anything I see a 
1 minute delay in execution. This is due to us trying to launch the driver 
(without winedevice) and sending a start control to it. It looks like this 
introduces a timeout.

So again, I'm not trying to get this driver running but want to get rid of that 
timeout.

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.