Revision 1.136 introduced two features that may cause undefined

behaviour of the hardware: a possibly reserved bit of the receive
descriptor (RFA) `status' field is borrowed to record no-resource
(RNR) events, and the same status field is read and written to at
a time that may clash with the hardware updating this field.

There is no hardware documentation available to determine if these
things are safe to do; the second issue almost certainly isn't, and
the first is only safe if there is documentation saying that this
bit is free to be used by the driver. The PR referenced below
provides extremely convincing evidence that the changes cause random
crashes on some (unusual) hardware.

Since these features are only required by the DEVICE_POLLING case,
this commit makes their use conditional on that option. It does not
change the DEVICE_POLLING case, but at least people with the rare
hardware on which this code causes problems can now avoid the crashes
by not enabling DEVICE_POLLING.

PR:		kern/42260
Reviewed by:	luigi
Problem revision found by: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal@unia.3lo.lublin.pl>
Tested by:	Pawel Malachowski <pawmal@unia.3lo.lublin.pl>
MFC after:	1 week

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