So far I have been able to find the low level interfaces in the kernal
driver domain for this capability. From the MSDN documentation there is
kernal mode interface to the driver to handle removal,
IRP_MN_QUERY_REMOVE_DEVICE. This of course is only one a couple of IRP's
that must be used to remove the device. What I have not found yet is the
application interface to call into either the PNP manager or to the device
directly. Please advice. Thanks.
There is no API to enable or disable this behavior in Win2K. The only
thing that determines if this dialog appears is whether or not the device
indicated that it supports surprise removal. This is done by setting the
DEVICE_CAPABILITIES SurpriseRemovalOK field to TRUE when handling
IRP_MN_QUERY_CAPABILITIES.
To change this behavior you would need to write a filter driver that
installs on top of the device you are interested in, and then modifies the
SurpriseRemovalOK field when IRP_MN_QUERY_CAPABILITIES is being completed.
Martin Borve
Windows DDK Support
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What I am looking for is a method to provide the same capability as the Tool
Tray app that provides the safe method of "Eject or unplug hardware". In
our application we want to be able to cleanly handle USB device removal such
that the user does not need to use the provided Tool Tray application. I
have read through several MSDN pages that discuss the pnp Manager and its
ability to performs these operations on devices, however most of the
discussion is based on the kernal side of writing device drivers. We are
not trying to write a custom device driver merely trying to use the services
that exist within Windows.
Thanks.
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