Improves the stm32 timer counter driver by introducing new signals, e.g. counting frequency, and missing channels. It also adds support for interrupt based events using the chrdev interface. Two event types are added in this series: overflows and capture. Up to now, stm32 timer counter driver focused mainly on quadrature encoder feature on channel 1 & 2. It was limited to timers that has the HW quadrature encoder. With this series, all timer instances can be enabled for: - Quadrature encoder on channel 1 and channel 2 (when supported in HW) - Simple counting on internal clock - Capture counter value when rising and falling edges are observed at channel 1 to channel 4 input (number of channels varies depending on the timer instance used) - Push overflow and/or capture events through the chardev interface Changes in V3: - This series has been split [1] and renamed. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230922143920.3144249-1-fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxxxxxxx/ - Watch events tool patch applied, hence dropped from this series - Refactor / split several patches - Keep original signals order, to avoid breaking existing user space - Don't adjust number of signals: adopt static configuration. rely on error mechanism to manage diversity across STM32 Timers instances. Changes in v2: - counter fix and improvement patch applied, hence dropped in v2 series - mfd patch applied, hence dropped in v2 series - revisit watch events tool (mainly command line interface) - add one patch to rename STM32 Timer counter - various review comments from v1 Fabrice Gasnier (10): counter: stm32-timer-cnt: rename quadrature signal counter: stm32-timer-cnt: rename counter counter: stm32-timer-cnt: adopt signal definitions counter: stm32-timer-cnt: introduce clock signal counter: stm32-timer-cnt: add counter prescaler extension counter: stm32-timer-cnt: add checks on quadrature encoder capability counter: stm32-timer-cnt: introduce channels counter: stm32-timer-cnt: probe number of channels from registers counter: stm32-timer-cnt: add support for overflow events counter: stm32-timer-cnt: add support for capture events drivers/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.c | 455 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/mfd/stm32-timers.h | 13 + 2 files changed, 454 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1