Tegra board file deprecation schedule

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

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?

> 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.