hw/core/clock: Add the clock_new helper function

This function creates a clock and parents it to another object with a
given name. It calls clock_setup_canonical_path before returning the
new clock.

This function is useful to create clocks in devices when one doesn't
want to expose it at the qdev level (as an input or an output).

Suggested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Luc Michel <luc@lmichel.fr>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20201010135759.437903-4-luc@lmichel.fr>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/clock.c b/hw/core/clock.c
index 7066282f7b..f866717a83 100644
--- a/hw/core/clock.c
+++ b/hw/core/clock.c
@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ void clock_setup_canonical_path(Clock *clk)
     clk->canonical_path = object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(clk));
 }
 
+Clock *clock_new(Object *parent, const char *name)
+{
+    Object *obj;
+    Clock *clk;
+
+    obj = object_new(TYPE_CLOCK);
+    object_property_add_child(parent, name, obj);
+    object_unref(obj);
+
+    clk = CLOCK(obj);
+    clock_setup_canonical_path(clk);
+
+    return clk;
+}
+
 void clock_set_callback(Clock *clk, ClockCallback *cb, void *opaque)
 {
     clk->callback = cb;