> 4, when I am debugging "acpi_enter_sleep_state()" , I found that this is > a tough task because after somewhat, I can't use printk() again . > so I can't trace them defintely , do you have some better solution ???? Perhaps you could use the early_console code (you'd have to add some code to switch back to it). Take a look at Documentation/ia64/serial.txt. That code just pushes bytes out the serial port with very few dependencies, so it ought to keep working till very late during shutdown sequence. -Tony -- 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