Tegra board file deprecation schedule

[Marc Dietrich]

On Saturday 28 April 2012 22:34:56 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 06:09:32PM +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > Another (maybe a bit off-topic) thing that puzzels me is the how to assign
> > the clock to the nvec.
> 
> What's the nvec?

it is the embedded controller used on many first gen tegra2 boards 
(drivers/staging/nvec). Do you remember commit 55dc6ee7 ?

> > The device needs the clock (tegra-i2c.2) but there is no sane way to get
> > it. I was thinking to add an device name alias (nvec = tegra-i2c.2) to
> > the board file so I can use clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL) instead of
> > clk_get_sys which seems to be unwanted.
> 
> clk_get() is preferred in drivers which have struct device's to get them.
> And if you know the device name, then I see no problem with the aliasing
> approach.

I'm just looking for a way to use clk_get if two devices, tegra-i2c and nvec 
(or tegra-i2c-slave in the future) share the same clock. 

Marc