--- /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/ec.c	2011-07-22 04:17:23.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/src/linux/ec-3.0.0_patched.c	2011-11-30 16:09:36.687638000 +0100
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@
 				if (ec_transaction_done(ec))
 					return 0;
 			} else {
+				msleep(1);				
 				if (wait_event_timeout(ec->wait,
 						ec_transaction_done(ec),
 						msecs_to_jiffies(1)))
@@ -229,8 +230,8 @@
 			}
 			advance_transaction(ec, acpi_ec_read_status(ec));
 		} while (time_before(jiffies, delay));
-		if (acpi_ec_read_status(ec) & ACPI_EC_FLAG_IBF)
-			break;
+		//if (acpi_ec_read_status(ec) & ACPI_EC_FLAG_IBF)
+		//	break;
 		pr_debug(PREFIX "controller reset, restart transaction\n");
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&ec->curr_lock, flags);
 		start_transaction(ec);
@@ -267,6 +268,15 @@
 	return (status & ACPI_EC_FLAG_IBF) == 0;
 }
 
+/* try to clean input buffer with burst_disable transaction */
+static int acpi_ec_clean_buffer(struct acpi_ec *ec)
+{
+	struct transaction t = {.command = ACPI_EC_BURST_DISABLE,
+				.wdata = NULL, .rdata = NULL,
+				.wlen = 0, .rlen = 0};
+	return acpi_ec_transaction_unlocked(ec, &t);
+}
+
 static int ec_wait_ibf0(struct acpi_ec *ec)
 {
 	unsigned long delay = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(ec_delay);
@@ -275,7 +285,8 @@
 		if (wait_event_timeout(ec->wait, ec_check_ibf0(ec),
 					msecs_to_jiffies(1)))
 			return 0;
-	return -ETIME;
+	//return -ETIME;
+	return acpi_ec_clean_buffer(ec);
 }
 
 static int acpi_ec_transaction(struct acpi_ec *ec, struct transaction *t)