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Your miniport driver must free all NDIS ports that it allocates for miniport adapters in its MiniportInitializeEx function. It can free a port any time by calling NdisMFreePort, except for the two cases noted below.
Your miniport driver must free all allocated ports in these cases:
- If your driver’s MiniportInitializeEx function fails, it must free all allocated ports.
- If a miniport adapter is halted, your driver’s MiniportHaltEx function must free all allocated ports.
Your miniport driver cannot simply call NdisMFreePort in these cases:
- If the port is the default port, NDIS frees it automatically, so your miniport driver must not free it. If you try to free the default port, NdisMFreePort returns an NDIS_STATUS_INVALID_PORT error.
- If the port is active, your miniport driver will need to deactivate it before calling NdisMFreePort.