[PATCH v2 03/15] hw/core/clock: add the clock_new helper function

[Luc Michel <luc@lmichel.fr>]

This function creates a clock a parent 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>
---
 include/hw/clock.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/hw/clock.h b/include/hw/clock.h
index c93e6113cd..a67c4c008b 100644
--- a/include/hw/clock.h
+++ b/include/hw/clock.h
@@ -93,10 +93,36 @@ extern const VMStateDescription vmstate_clock;
  *
  * compute the canonical path of the clock (used by log messages)
  */
 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
+ */
+static inline 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;
+}
+
 /**
  * clock_set_callback:
  * @clk: the clock to register the callback into
  * @cb: the callback function
  * @opaque: the argument to the callback
-- 
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