drivers: eth: gmac: drop TX timeout handling
The current SAM E70 Ethernet driver sometimes get stuck if the stack
has to send 2 packets in a row, for example an ack for the just received
data + answer data.
The problem is the following one:
1) The first packet goes through eth_tx, one tx_desc_sem semaphore is
taken, and the tx_timeout_work delayed work is submitted.
2) The second packet also goes through eth_tx, another tx_desc_sem
semaphore is taken, and the tx_timeout_work delayed work is not
started because there is already one already submitted.
3) The first packet has been sent, one tx_desc_sem semaphore is given
and the tx_timeout_work delayed work is cancelled.
4) The second packet has been sent but given the delayed work has
already been cancelled, tx_completed is not called: the tx_desc_sem
semaphore is not given back and the network packet is not
unreferenced.
The whole timeout concept probably has to be reworked. In the meantime
it is probably better to just drop the timeout code instead of keeping
the driver broken. We can only get stuck on the TX path if there is a
bug in the driver or a hardware malfunction. It might happen, but with
the less probability then the current hangs. In addition it just hides
the real issues and prevent them to be fixed.
This commit therefore just remove the timeout code in the TX path.
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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