Revert "macb: support the two tx descriptors on at91rm9200"
This reverts commit 0a4e9ce1. The code was developed and tested on an MSC313E SoC, which seems to be half-way between the AT91RM9200 and the AT91SAM9260 in that it supports both the 2-descriptors mode and a Tx ring. It turns out that after the code was merged I could notice that the controller would sometimes lock up, and only when dealing with sustained bidirectional transfers, in which case it would report a Tx overrun condition right after having reported being ready, and will stop sending even after the status is cleared (a down/up cycle fixes it though). After adding lots of traces I couldn't spot a sequence pattern allowing to predict that this situation would happen. The chip comes with no documentation and other bits are often reported with no conclusive pattern either. It is possible that my change is wrong just like it is possible that the controller on the chip is bogus or at least unpredictable based on existing docs from other chips. I do not have an RM9200 at hand to test at the moment and a few tests run on a more recent 9G20 indicate that this code path cannot be used there to test the code on a 3rd platform. Since the MSC313E works fine in the single-descriptor mode, and that people using the old RM9200 very likely favor stability over performance, better revert this patch until we can test it on the original platform this part of the driver was written for. Note that the reverted patch was actually tested on MSC313E. Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Cc: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com> Cc: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201206092041.GA10646@1wt.eu/Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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