From: Don Burn on
It has nothing to do with ETW. Take a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa489593.aspx


Don Burn (MVP, Windows DKD)
Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr





> -----Original Message-----
> From: RamenWarrior [mailto:RamenWarrior(a)nospam.nospam]
> Posted At: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:15 PM
> Posted To: microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
> Conversation: How to work with StorportLogSystemEvent
> Subject: RE: How to work with StorportLogSystemEvent
>
> I have a few more questions related to using the message compiler. I
> started
> reading about creating a manifest and was led here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468726.aspx (Adding Event
> Tracing to
> Kernel-Mode drivers).
>
> While this document was helpful it was clearly intended for general
> device
> drivers and not the storport special case. I assume that I won't need to
> use
> EtwXXXX functions to manipulate the manifest. However as someone who has
> never
> used the message compiler I wish there was more documentation specific
> to
> storport driver writing.
>
> "RamenWarrior" wrote:
>
> > I thought the data type PWSTR implied that all string were in Unicode
> format.
> > Are you saying I can ignore that assumption and use standard strings?
> >
> >
> > "Don Burn" wrote:
> >
> > > For a standard storport the Unicode string functions are not
> > > available, but for a log entry they are rarely needed. If you need
> > > to pass a constant UNICODE_STRING emulate the RTL_CONSTANT_STRING
> > > string macro from the WDK. Mostly people use the message compiler
> > > to put together the equivalent of the format string of a printf and
> > > then have the individual args as needed.
> > >
> > >
> > > Don Burn (MVP, Windows DKD)
> > > Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
> > > Website: http://www.windrvr.com
> > > Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr
> > >
> >
>
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