Hi, while debug some strange termal shutdowns I wrote this patch to get more information in /var/log/messages about the reason for the shutdown. I think this would be useful in general. Danny From: Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@xxxxxxx> Subject: ACPI: more verbose thermal zone shutdown message add more information to acpi thermal zone shutdown message for easier debugging Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@xxxxxxx> --- thermal.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/acpi/thermal.c 2007-04-05 13:37:07.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/acpi/thermal.c 2007-04-05 16:02:03.000000000 +0200 @@ -457,14 +457,20 @@ return -EINVAL; if (tz->temperature >= tz->trips.critical.temperature) { - printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Critical trip point\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX + "Critical trip point (%ld C) reached on thermal zone [%s]\n", + KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS(tz->trips.critical.temperature), + acpi_device_bid(tz->device)); tz->trips.critical.flags.enabled = 1; } else if (tz->trips.critical.flags.enabled) tz->trips.critical.flags.enabled = 0; printk(KERN_EMERG - "Critical temperature reached (%ld C), shutting down.\n", - KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS(tz->temperature)); + "Critical temperature reached (%ld C on [%s] with trip point set to: %ld C), shutting down.\n", + KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS(tz->temperature), + acpi_device_bid(tz->device), + KELVIN_TO_CELSIUS(tz->trips.critical.temperature)); + acpi_bus_generate_event(tz->device, ACPI_THERMAL_NOTIFY_CRITICAL, tz->trips.critical.flags.enabled); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html