Improving Default Serial Port Configuration

[James Hawkins]

On Jan 14, 2008 9:17 AM, Forrest Samuels <forrest at alumni.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jan 13, 2008 8:39 AM, Hans Leidekker <hans at it.vu.nl> 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