NdisCloseAdapter

NdisCloseAdapter

VOID
NdisCloseAdapter(
OUT PNDIS_STATUS Status,
IN NDIS_HANDLE NdisBindingHandle
);

NdisCloseAdapter releases the binding established and the resources allocated when the protocol called NdisOpenAdapter.

Parameters

Status

Points to a caller-supplied variable in which this function returns the status of the close operation, which can be one of the following values:

NDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS

The binding was closed and all resources pertaining to that binding have been released.

NDIS_STATUS_PENDING

A close-adapter request is being handled asynchronously, and the caller's ProtocolCloseAdapterComplete function will be called when the close operation is done.

NdisBindingHandle

Specifies the handle returned by NdisOpenAdapter that identifies the virtual adapter or NIC to be closed.

Comments

As soon as a protocol calls NdisCloseAdapter, the handle at NdisBindingHandle should be considered invalid by the caller. It is a programming error to pass this handle in any subsequent call to an NdisXxx function.

Callers of NdisCloseAdapter run at IRQL PASSIVE_LEVEL.