


Research and experience warn that diverse talent can be at risk during a downturn for several reasons-for example, downsizing can have a disproportionate impact on the roles typically held by diverse talent. If companies deprioritize I&D during the crisis, the impact will be felt not just on the bottom line but in people’s lives. We believe such companies risk tarnishing their license to operate in the long term and will lose out on opportunities to innovate their business models and strengthen their recovery. On the other hand, some companies appear to be viewing I&D as a “luxury we cannot afford” during the crisis. As the CEO of a European consumer-goods company told us: “I know we have to deal with COVID-19, but inclusion and diversity is a topic too important to put onto the back burner.”

Companies whose leaders welcome diverse talents and include multiple perspectives are likely to emerge from the crisis stronger. As this report shows, however, I&D is a powerful enabler of business performance. In this challenging context, the task of fostering inclusion and diversity (I&D) could easily take a back seat-and the painstaking progress made by many firms in recent years could be reversed. Not only must they protect the health of their employees and customers, they must also navigate far-reaching disruption to their operations, plan for recovery, and prepare to reimagine their business models for the next normal. To determine whether your driver type requires that you store information under specific registry keys, see the sections of this documentation that discuss your driver's device type by using the table of contents.For business executives the world over, the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be one of the greatest leadership tests of their careers. Your driver's INF file can contain INF AddReg directives that set registry values under the hardware key using INF DDInstall.HW sections.

Your driver can call WdfFdoInitOpenRegistryKey and WdfDeviceOpenRegistryKey to open a device's hardware key. Settings related to the hardware (such as interrupt settings) can be stored here by drivers. When a driver stack informs the Plug and Play (PnP) manager that a device is connected to the system, the PnP manager creates a hardware key for the device. Your driver's INF file can contain INF AddReg directives that set registry values under the software key using INF DDInstall sections. Your driver can call WdfFdoInitOpenRegistryKey and WdfDeviceOpenRegistryKey to open a device's software key. The system stores information about each driver under its software key. Subsequently, the driver can obtain the path by calling WdfDriverGetRegistryPath.Ī driver's software key is also called its driver key. Your driver must pass this path to WdfDriverCreate. When the system calls your driver's DriverEntry routine, it passes the driver a path to the driver's key in the appropriate Services tree.
