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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by justanotheratom on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @01:46PM (#11490426)
It is very nice to see this effort. I have one suggestion - integrate with WDF APIs instead of the lower level and legacy WDM APIs.
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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by poizan42 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @07:27AM (#11495709)
"Legacy" is as much said. It still forms the basis interface that is used by WDF. Also you still need to use the WDM directly if you are writing a filesystem driver.

Besides that, the WDF source is available under a MIT license, so it might make more sense to just port it to Rust.

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by pravic on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:31PM (#11492390)
It is not effort. It was just a fun :)
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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by PeCaN on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:00PM (#11491159)
Except WDF is a C++ API.
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