What are WDM drivers?

[dakota81]

Some of my hardware components have two different available drivers to download from the internet, a regular driver, then a WDM driver. What does that mean, WDM? Should I be using one or another in certain hardware configurations? I'm running Win98SE.

 

[paulwood]

Stands for Windows Driver Model, more info than you will ever want from

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/desinit/wdm.htm

it may help to answer your question, but it is a bit technical. As I understand it, it is something Microsoft has developed to make driver writing easier, by adding standard bits to Windows that can be augmented by driver writers, with code for their specific hardware.

Whether this is better than a specifically written driver depends on the capabilities of the programmers. I would think a good programmer should produce a better driver specifically written for a piece of hardware. But what do I know, I'm no driver programmer