Here is the patch.

Please try/review.

Regards,
Alex.
Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
> Sounds sensible.  Hopefully we're right that most systems with these
> broken EC's don't want the workaround.  I assume you will still notify
> the user automatically, something like "acpi: ec: GPE storm detected,
> try booting with ec=poll".
> 
> Thanks
> Alan