UMDF Driver development

Hi,
I am developing driver and i need to communicate between two thread.
>can anyone guide me on implementing communication between two thread in the same process using File Interface. First thread will be driver and second will be application.I need to send IOCTL like commands using File interface ie is WriteFile(),ReadFile()
from application to driverthrough file-interface(which run's in driver context).Application should not be blocked for the duration of the driver to process the command.
>File-interface will run in driver context and it will be responsible to receive command from application and pass it to the driver.
what are the complexity introduced?
>Can anyone also give me the link/reference to get more information on this topic?
>How to replace IOCTL command's for instance baud _rate change command with a file interface for example with IRP.

It is a host process of the UMDF Driver.
>File-interface will run in driver context and it will be responsible to receive command from application and pass it to the driver.
what are the complexity introduced?
>Can anyone also give me the link/reference to get more information on this topic?
>How to replace IOCTL command's for instance baud _rate change command with a file interface for example with IRP.

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