wifi: rtw89: retry efuse physical map dump on transient failure

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On Radxa Rock 5B with a RTL8852BE combo WiFi/BT card, the efuse
physical map dump intermittently fails with -EBUSY during probe.
The failure occurs in rtw89_dump_physical_efuse_map_ddv() where
read_poll_timeout_atomic() times out waiting for the B_AX_EF_RDY
bit after 1 second.

The root cause is a timing race during boot: the WiFi driver's
chip initialization (firmware download via PCIe) overlaps with
Bluetooth firmware download to the same combo chip via USB. This
can leave the efuse controller temporarily unavailable when the
WiFi driver attempts to read the efuse map.

The firmware download path retries up to 5 times, but the efuse
read that follows has no similar logic. Address this by adding
retry loop logic (also up to 5 attempts) around physical efuse
map dump.

Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317112155.1939569-1-christianshewitt@gmail.com

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Christian Hewitt 2026-03-17 11:21:55 +00:00 • committed by Ping-Ke Shih

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drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/efuse.c

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