ACPI / EC: Clear stale EC events on Samsung systems
A number of Samsung notebooks (530Uxx/535Uxx/540Uxx/550Pxx/900Xxx/etc) continue to log events during sleep (lid open/close, AC plug/unplug, battery level change), which accumulate in the EC until a buffer fills. After the buffer is full (tests suggest it holds 8 events), GPEs stop being triggered for new events. This state persists on wake or even on power cycle, and prevents new events from being registered until the EC is manually polled. This is the root cause of a number of bugs, including AC not being detected properly, lid close not triggering suspend, and low ambient light not triggering the keyboard backlight. The bug also seemed to be responsible for performance issues on at least one user's machine. Juan Manuel Cabo found the cause of bug and the workaround of polling the EC manually on wake. The loop which clears the stale events is based on an earlier patch by Lan Tianyu (see referenced attachment). This patch: - Adds a function acpi_ec_...
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