Pavel Yosifovich's "Windows Kernel Programming" book examples in Rust

[maqong]

Hi, I've started translating the C/C++ examples from the book to Rust (I'm currently at chapter 7) as an exercise in writing Rust Windows drivers. Here's a description of the issues I've encountered so far: https://zaddach.github.io/2025-11-10-windows-drivers-in-rust/

I'd be grateful for any feedback!

[jdoubleu (jdoubleu)]

Interesting read! Didn't know about the tracelogging create, yet but definitely gonna try that out.
I also found this paper, which discusses almost the same pain points and comes to a similar conclusion:

Cot, C., Portase, R., Coleşa, A. (2026). Rust in the Kernel: A Practical Evaluation on Windows. In: D'Arco, P., Zamfiroiu, A. (eds) Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications. SecITC 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16443. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-17443-7_19

Does it make sense to add the examples to https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-rust-driver-samples/?