Plug and Play and Power Management for Drivers

Plug and Play and power management encompass activities involved in the installation, configuration, and device operation. To properly support Plug and Play and power management, the operating system, drivers, system administration software, device installation software, system hardware, and device hardware must all work together.

Windows and the Windows Driver Model (WDM) expose a complicated model for Plug and Play and power management that depends on the driver to keep track of both the state of its device and the state of the system, thus in effect implementing its own informal state machine.

The WDF frameworks implement intelligent default behavior and expose a set of state-specific callbacks that drivers can implement to customize the Plug and Play and power behavior. The WDF driver supplies only the code required to manipulate its device. The framework tracks device and system state and calls the driver at its registered callbacks to perform device-specific actions.

Getting Started with PnP and Power in Drivers

	Plug and Play and Power Management in WDF Drivers
	Power Management in the WDK Kernel-Mode Driver Design Guide
	WDK Online: Implementing Plug and Play
	WDK Online: Implementing Power Management

Plug and Play for Drivers

	Device Installation Rules for Windows Vista
	Driver Package Integrity During Plug and Play Device Installs in Windows Vista
	Installing Drivers and Utilities without Rebooting on Windows
	Plug and Play Device Driver Deployment in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
	Plug and Play Device Driver Migration in Windows Vista
	Presentations on the ACPI Web Site
	WDK Online: Implementing WMI

Power Management Best Practices for Drivers

	Power Event Monitoring Tool Sample Application
	Direct Application Launch from System Startup on Windows Vista
	Increasing System Power Efficiency through Driver Support for Runtime Idle Detection
	Mobile Battery Solutions Guide for Windows Vista
	Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows
	Windows Disk Idle Detection
	Integrating Drivers and Applications with Windows Power Management

Resources

	WDK Documentation Download
	Driver Developer Community Resources
	Driver Signing Requirements for Windows
	Driver Tips: Best Practices for Windows Device Drivers
	Notes from Windows Development Teams
	Support for Developer Kits and Tools
	Driver Developer Blogs
	WDK Documentation on MSDN

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