I have very strong evidence that the issue was introduced by kernel commit
1b7fc5aae8867046f8d3d45808309d5b7f2e036a

|  Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2008-06-06 17:49:33
|  Committer: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2008-06-12 01:13:45
|  Branches: git-v2.6.26, master, remotes/origin/master
|  Follows: v2.6.26-rc5
|  Precedes: v2.6.26-rc6
|  
|      ACPI: EC: Use msleep instead of udelay while waiting for event.
|      
|      http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
|      
|      Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|      Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|  
|  ------------------------------ drivers/acpi/ec.c 
------------------------------
|  index 0924992..5622aee 100644
|  @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int acpi_ec_wait(struct acpi_ec *ec, enum 
ec_event event, int force_poll)
|               while (time_before(jiffies, delay)) {
|                       if (acpi_ec_check_status(ec, event))
|                               return 0;
|  -                    udelay(ACPI_EC_UDELAY);
|  +                    msleep(1);
|               }
|       }
|       pr_err(PREFIX "acpi_ec_wait timeout, status = 0x%2.2x, event = %s\n",
|  

Undoing this patch in 2.6.26.3 still heals the issue. (This does not mean
that undoing it is the right fix for it. See later messages).



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