re: Support of USB hardware tokens

[Dan Kegel]

> I think should split my patch into many little commits.
> Should also add some tests or make some changes?

Yes, add conformance tests for the new ntoskrnl functions
and usbd.sys, and break the patch up a lot...

Looks like people have been hoping for something like
this for a couple years now, e.g.
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-November/042357.html

Support of USB hardware tokens

[Alexander Morozov]

> Yes, add conformance tests for the new ntoskrnl functions
> and usbd.sys, and break the patch up a lot...

Conformance tests should consist of a driver and a program to load 
it. I do not know other method to call functions from ntoskrnl.exe and 
usbd.sys on Windows. But I have a problem with building drivers with MinGW. I 
was able to create a driver which is loading on Wine with manual editing of 
PE header but it does not work on Windows and I do not understand what should 
change to fix this. Did somebody build NT drivers with MinGW?

Support of USB hardware tokens

[Steven Edwards]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Alexander Morozov  wrote:
> Conformance tests should consist of a driver and a program to load
> it. I do not know other method to call functions from ntoskrnl.exe and
> usbd.sys on Windows. But I have a problem with building drivers with MinGW. I
> was able to create a driver which is loading on Wine with manual editing of
> PE header but it does not work on Windows and I do not understand what should
> change to fix this. Did somebody build NT drivers with MinGW?

Look at how the ReactOS guys are doing it. I know for a fact that some
of their developers build certain drivers like the ReactOS VBE driver
and test it under NT4 and others so Mingw can do it.