[U-Boot] [PATCH] part_dos: allocate sector buffer dynamically

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Sergei Shtylyov,

In message <201104122323.59105.sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com> you wrote:
> Apple iPod nanos have sector sizes of 2 or 4 KiB, which crashes U-Boot when it
> tries to read the MBR into 512-byte buffer situated on stack. Instead allocate
> this buffer dynamically to be safe with any large sector size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com>

Can we please keep the buffer on the stack as before?  There is no
need to use malloc() here. It just makes the code slower and more
complicated and error prone without neeed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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