The Linux rtl8xxxu driver has more delays in the RF read and write
path.
It looks like for writes it's ensuring the hardware is out of
power save and that the transition has properly occured.
And it looks for reads that it wants a delay after some bit setting,
likely some shifting into the RF register space is occuring with
a bit set/clear to trigger a load.
See rtl8xxxu_write_rfreg() and rtl8xxxu_read_rfreg() for more
information.
Obtained from: Linux rtl8xxxu