Porting Miniport Driver Send and Receive Operations to NDIS 6.0
Data transfer code paths in NDIS 6.0 have changed as follows:
All NDIS 6.0 miniport drivers are deserialized.
The NET_BUFFER_LIST structures and NET_BUFFER structures replace the NDIS_PACKET structure.
Drivers can send and receive multiple packets in a single call without determining the number of packets beforehand. This is because the packets are provided in a linked list of NET_BUFFER structures instead of an array of NDIS_PACKET structures.
The completion status of a send or receive operation is indicated in the Status member of the NET_BUFFER_LIST structure. This completion status is not returned as a function return code or a parameter of the NdisMSendComplete function.
For more information about these changes, see NET_BUFFER Architecture.
Additional information about porting send and receive operations is included in the following topics:
Allocating Network Data Pools in an NDIS 6.0 Miniport Driver