[Manufacturer Name] Section

Syntax

[manufacturer-name]
device-description=install-section-name, device-id[,compatible-device-id]...

The [Manufacturer Name] section gives the device description and identifies the [Install] section for this device. The manufacturer-name section name must be defined in the [Manufacturer] section.

device-description

Description of the device to install. This can be any combination of printable characters or a strings key.

install-section-name

Name of the [Install] section for this device.

device-id

Identifier for this device.

compatible-device-id

Identifier of a compatible device. More than one compatible-device identifier can be given, but each must be preceded by a comma.

The following example shows a typical [Manufacturer Name] section. The name of the [Install] section for this device is SuperSCSI. This device-id is *PNPA000 and its compatible device identifier is *PnPA001.

[APEXD]
%DevDesc1%  = SuperSCSI, *PNPA000, *PnPA001

For each driver installed using this INF file, Setup uses the information in these [Manufacturer Name] sections to generate Driver Description, Manufacturer Name, DeviceID, and Compatibility list entries in the registry.