The driver assigned each virtual monitor a monotonically-increasing NEXT_ID used
as the EDID serial / IddCx ConnectorIndex / container GUID, and never reclaimed
it on REMOVE. Under sustained ADD/REMOVE churn the connector index kept climbing,
so IddCx/PnP allocated a NEW OS target slot every cycle and orphaned the old one
(ghost "Generic Monitor (punktfunk)" nodes) until the adapter's target capacity
was exhausted and ADD failed 0x80070490 ERROR_NOT_FOUND.
Fix: `create_monitor` now allocates the LOWEST free id (`alloc_monitor_id`,
computed under the MONITOR_MODES lock with the push) instead of a counter, so a
departed monitor's id is reclaimed and a fresh ADD reuses its target slot rather
than orphaning it. With <= N live monitors the id stays bounded to 1..=N+1.
Deleted the now-unused NEXT_ID + AtomicU32/Ordering import.
CI-compile-gated only — the wedge reproduces solely under sustained churn on the
RTX box, so this needs an on-glass reconnect-storm A/B to confirm (box is
ephemeral/down). Marked on-glass-pending in windows-host-rewrite.md §4; keep
reset-pf-vdisplay.ps1 as the recovery until validated. NOT to be relied on (or
merged to main) until that A/B passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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