The I2C_M_RECV_LEN flag indicates that the length of
an I2C response is in the first byte read. So the maximum
size of the read buffer using this option is 256 bytes.

Currently the i2c-dev driver returns EINVAL when an
attempt is made to use ioctl(I2C_RDWR) with the
I2C_M_RECV_LEN flag set. That is overly paranoid:

ChangeLog:
   - allow I2C_M_RECV_LEN flag in the i2c-dev driver as
     long as the associated buffer length can cope with
     the worst case size (which is 256 bytes).

Doug Gilbert
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