2.3 Miniport NIC Driver Functions

This section provides an overview of the functions exported by and called by a miniport NIC driver. A miniport driver developer must implement a number of upper-edge functions that can be called from NDIS. Miniport drivers also typically call a common set of NDIS functions.

• Upper-edge driver functions supported by miniport drivers are discussed in Section 2.3.1 

• NDIS library functions called by miniport drivers are discussed in Section 2.3.2 

For details on how these functions work together, see Section 2.4. For a more detailed explanation of the requirements of each miniport function, see Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.