WdfIoTargetStart method

[Applies to KMDF and UMDF]

The WdfIoTargetStart method starts sending queued requests to a local or remote I/O target.

Syntax

NTSTATUS WdfIoTargetStart(
  [in]  WDFIOTARGET IoTarget
);

Parameters

IoTarget [in]

A handle to a local or remote I/O target object that was obtained from a previous call to WdfDeviceGetIoTarget or WdfIoTargetCreate, or from a method that a specialized I/O target provides.

Return value

WdfIoTargetStart returns STATUS_SUCCESS if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, this method might return one of the following values:

This method also might return other NTSTATUS values.

A bug check occurs if the driver supplies an invalid object handle.

Remarks

If your driver can detect recoverable device errors, you might want your driver to call WdfIoTargetStop to temporarily stop sending requests, then later call WdfIoTargetStart to resume sending requests.

Additionally, if a driver calls WdfUsbTargetPipeConfigContinuousReader to configure a continuous reader for a USB pipe, the driver's EvtDeviceD0Entry callback function must call WdfIoTargetStart to start the reader.

Your driver must call WdfIoTargetStart and WdfIoTargetStop synchronously. After the driver calls one of these functions, it must not call the other function before the first one returns.

For more information about WdfIoTargetStart, see Controlling a General I/O Target's State.

For more information about I/O targets, see Using I/O Targets.

Examples

The following code example shows how an EvtDeviceD0Entry callback function can call WdfIoTargetStart, if the driver uses a continuous reader for a USB pipe.

NTSTATUS
MyEvtDeviceD0Entry(
    IN  WDFDEVICE Device,
    IN  WDF_POWER_DEVICE_STATE PreviousState
)
{
    PDEVICE_CONTEXT  pDeviceContext;
    NTSTATUS  status;

    pDeviceContext = GetMyDeviceContext(Device);

    status = WdfIoTargetStart(WdfUsbTargetPipeGetIoTarget(pDeviceContext->InterruptPipe));

    return status;
}

Requirements

See also

EvtDeviceD0Entry

WdfDeviceGetIoTarget

WdfIoTargetCreate

WdfIoTargetStop

WdfUsbTargetPipeConfigContinuousReader

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