Driver-Driver and Driver-Application Communication

Everybody knows how an application communicates with a driver: call CreateFile to open a handle to the PDO, and use ReadFile(Ex), WriteFile(Ex) and DeviceIoControl to read data, write data or send a control code.

However, what about the opposite? How does a driver send data to an application (whenever it wants)? And how do drivers exchange data? These types of questions come very often in OSR's NTDEV list, so I found a list of resources that provide answers: