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, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/clock.h b/include/hw/clock.h
index d357594df9..cbc5e6ced1 100644
--- a/include/hw/clock.h
+++ b/include/hw/clock.h
@@ -91,6 +91,19 @@ extern const VMStateDescription vmstate_clock;
 void clock_setup_canonical_path(Clock *clk);
 
 /**
+ * clock_new:
+ * @parent: the clock parent
+ * @name: the clock object name
+ *
+ * Helper function to create a new clock and parent it to @parent. There is no
+ * need to call clock_setup_canonical_path on the returned clock as it is done
+ * by this function.
+ *
+ * @return the newly created clock
+ */
+Clock *clock_new(Object *parent, const char *name);
+
+/**
  * clock_set_callback:
  * @clk: the clock to register the callback into
  * @cb: the callback function