Add a sentinel length value that is used to check whether we should
read and use the length value provided by the slave device.
This simplifies the currently used checks.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>