Many of these clones have their own quirks, and the amount of work-arounding that's been added to the Linux drivers is quite notable. Kernel 8.5 onwards seems to incorporate most of the fixes, but along the way, patches like this were available:
https://gist.github.com/nevack/6b36b82d715dc025163d9e9124840...
Despite the fantastic efforts of the driver maintainers, I still managed to find a "CSR 4" cheap dongle that threw all sorts of errors in the logs and didn't work. I'm waiting for some Broadcomm chip-based replacements to arrive.