On Jan 14, 2008 9:17 AM, Forrest Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2008 8:39 AM, Hans Leidekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 13 January 2008 06:19:06 Forrest Samuels wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any insight on where I should start looking to > > > implement this? Implementation suggestions? In the bug, Juan Lang made > > > the suggestion that "Explorer's hal.c should be extended to create new > > > devices for all the ports it finds, using SetupDiCreateDeviceInfo > > > followed by SetupDiRegisterDeviceInfo. For some devices it should also > > > call SetupDiCreateDeviceInterface to register a particular interface." > > > I've looked in programs/explorer/hal.c and I am not sure where to > > > begin hooking something like that in. > > > > I'd like to know where and when SetupDiRegisterDeviceInfo gets called on > > Windows. I know that Alexandre is planning to move drive detection from > > explorer to mountmgr.sys, serial devices will probably end up in serial.sys > > or something like that. Perhaps this could work by making the driver itself > > do device registration. > > > > -Hans > > > > Is there a time frame for the mountmgr.sys changes? Do I need to wait > until Alexandre makes those changes or could I start working on this > fix elsewhere and just move it later. I'm not really sure where to > start and would love a little direction to get started. I don't think > this is taking on too much for my first work on wine but I may be > wrong on that too. Thanks for the help. >
To be honest, you're greatly underestimating the difficulty of the task. The fact that you have to ask such questions should alert you to this. -- James Hawkins
