these wait busy loops can take a very long time, and end up causing
interrupts to be lost elsewhere in the system, causing lost bytes on
UARTs
We should not have while loops waiting on peripharals like this. If we
do need to wait for a flag to clear then it needs to be done in a low
priority thread, or we need to check for completion in a timer
CAN still seems to work with this change, but needs flight testing
Siddharth Purohit
Andrew Tridgell