Hi, Instead of looping forever in the user space, you could sleep in the driver's ioctl() method (This would implicitly cause the user application to sleep). The driver's ioctl() would be waken up by the interrupt handler. Thanks, Rajat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ