From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752632AbZKPMyZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:54:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752285AbZKPMyZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:54:25 -0500 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:38367 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752255AbZKPMyY (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:54:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1258376069.11110.1345439521@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: xc/VWKAWLq69PWG8yy/OiHICKXgjKGx9ewjGF8GQAszV 1258376069 From: "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" To: "Pavel Machek" , "kernel list" Cc: ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface In-Reply-To: <20091116112304.GC12315@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20091116112304.GC12315@elf.ucw.cz> Subject: Re: -rc6: annoying thermal messages Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:54:29 -0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org n Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:23 +0100, "Pavel Machek" wrote: > > My dmesg log is rather full of. Thinkpad x60. > Pavel I think I will have to rate-limit it somehow. Do we have any ready-to- use generic rate-limiters that can do 'once a minute', or should I cook my own? But your thinkpad needs some sort of hardware loving care, it seems. What does "sensors" report (or cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal) ? > thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is > extremely hot! That is a direct alarm from the firmware, the EC thinks your hardware is damaged and about to catch fire. Either that, or something in the driver is seriously broken. But you're the first one to ever report that alarm :) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh