Merge tag 'counter-updates-for-6.15' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wbg/counter into char-misc-next

William writes:

Counter updates for 6.15

counter:
 - Introduce the COUNTER_EVENT_DIRECTION_CHANGE event
 - Introduce the COUNTER_COMP_COMPARE helper macro
microchip-tcb-cpature:
 - Add IRQ handling
 - Add support for capture extensions
 - Add support for compare extension
ti-eqep:
 - Add support for reading and detecting changes in direction
tools/counter:
 - Add counter_watch_events executable to .gitignore
 - Support COUNTER_EVENT_DIRECTION_CHANGE in counter_watch_events tool

* tag 'counter-updates-for-6.15' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wbg/counter:
  counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add support for RC Compare
  counter: Introduce the compare component
  counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add capture extensions for registers RA/RB
  counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add IRQ handling
  counter: ti-eqep: add direction support
  tools/counter: add direction change event to watcher
  counter: add direction change event
  tools/counter: gitignore counter_watch_events

include/uapi/linux/counter.h

@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ enum counter_event_type {
 	COUNTER_EVENT_CHANGE_OF_STATE,
 	/* Count value captured */
 	COUNTER_EVENT_CAPTURE,
+	/* Direction change detected */
+	COUNTER_EVENT_DIRECTION_CHANGE,
 };
 
 /**

include/uapi/linux/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.h

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+/*
+ * Channel numbers used by the microchip-tcb-capture driver
+ * Copyright (C) 2025 Bence Csókás
+ */
+#ifndef _UAPI_COUNTER_MCHP_TCB_H_
+#define _UAPI_COUNTER_MCHP_TCB_H_
+
+/*
+ * The driver defines the following components:
+ *
+ * Count 0
+ * \__  Synapse 0 -- Signal 0 (Channel A, i.e. TIOA)
+ * \__  Synapse 1 -- Signal 1 (Channel B, i.e. TIOB)
+ * \__  Extension capture0    (RA register)
+ * \__  Extension capture1    (RB register)
+ *
+ * It also supports the following events:
+ *
+ * Channel 0:
+ * - CV register changed
+ * - CV overflowed
+ * - RA captured
+ * Channel 1:
+ * - RB captured
+ * Channel 2:
+ * - RC compare triggered
+ */
+
+/* Capture extensions */
+#define COUNTER_MCHP_EXCAP_RA 0
+#define COUNTER_MCHP_EXCAP_RB 1
+
+/* Event channels */
+#define COUNTER_MCHP_EVCHN_CV 0
+#define COUNTER_MCHP_EVCHN_RA 0
+#define COUNTER_MCHP_EVCHN_RB 1
+#define COUNTER_MCHP_EVCHN_RC 2
+
+#endif /* _UAPI_COUNTER_MCHP_TCB_H_ */