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Registering for Notification of Device Interface Arrival and Device Removal

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This topic describes how a user-mode application or driver registers for notification of device interface arrival and device removal.

Typically, a user-mode component calls CM_Register_Notification to find a device interface, and then sends I/O requests to the interface. To do so, the component registers for both CM_NOTIFY_FILTER_TYPE_DEVICEINTERFACE and CM_NOTIFY_FILTER_TYPE_DEVICEHANDLE, for notification of device interface arrivals and device removals respectively. The calling sequence might look like the following.

Registering for Notification of Device Interface Arrival and Device Removal

  1. Call CM_Register_Notification with CM_NOTIFY_FILTER_TYPE_DEVICEINTERFACE to register for device interface arrival notifications. When future interfaces in the specified class arrive, the system notifies your component.

  2. Because the interface you want to send I/O to might already be present on the system, call CM_Get_Device_Interface_List or SetupDiGetClassDevs to retrieve a list of existing interfaces. Note If an interface arrives between step 1 and step 2, the interface is listed twice, from the registration in step 1 and the list of interfaces in step 2.

  3. Once you find your desired interface, call CreateFile to open a handle for the device.

  4. After successfully creating a device handle in step 3, call CM_Register_Notification a second time. This time, register for notifications of type CM_NOTIFY_FILTER_TYPE_DEVICEHANDLE, and provide the new device handle as the handle for which to receive notifications. When the device represented by the interface receives a query remove request, the system notifies your component.

  5. Use this table as you implement your device handle notification callback.

    Action value the callback receives What your component should do
    CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEQUERYREMOVE

    Call CloseHandle to close the device handle. If you do not do this, your open handle prevents the query remove of this device from succeeding.
    CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEQUERYREMOVEFAILED

    The query remove failed, so the device and its interface are still valid. To continue sending I/O to the interface, open a new handle to it.

    First, unregister the notifications for your old handle by calling CM_Unregister_Notification. You must do this from a deferred routine because you cannot call CM_Unregister_Notification from a notification callback for the notification handle you are unregistering. See the Remarks section of CM_Unregister_Notification for more information.

    Then, either continuing in the deferred routine, or back in your notification callback, call CreateFile to create a new handle. Then call CM_Register_Notification with the new handle and CM_NOTIFY_FILTER_TYPE_DEVICEHANDLE.

    Note that if you register for notifications on a device that is in the process of being query removed after the CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEQUERYREMOVE notifications have been sent, you may receive a CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEQUERYREMOVEFAILED notification without first receiving a CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEQUERYREMOVE notification.
    CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEREMOVEPENDING

    Call CM_Unregister_Notification to unregister the notifications for your handle. You must do this from a deferred routine. See the Remarks section of CM_Unregister_Notification for more information. If you still have an open handle to the device, call CloseHandle to close the device handle.
    CM_NOTIFY_ACTION_DEVICEREMOVECOMPLETE

    Call CM_Unregister_Notification to unregister the notifications for your handle. You must do this from a deferred routine. See the Remarks section of CM_Unregister_Notification for more information. If you still have an open handle to the device, call CloseHandle to close the device handle.

  6. Once you are finished with the device, call CM_Unregister_Notification to unregister the interface notification callback that you registered in step 1.

If you are following this procedure in a UMDF 2 driver, see Using Device Interfaces for a code example. A UMDF 2 driver might perform steps 1-4 in the driver's EvtDevicePrepareHardware callback routine, and step 6 in one of the driver's device removal callback routines.

CM_Register_Notification

CM_Unregister_Notification

Using Device Interfaces