dt-bindings: net: move ptp-timer property to ethernet-controller.yaml

For some Ethernet controllers, the PTP timer function is not integrated.
Instead, the PTP timer is a separate device and provides PTP Hardware
Clock (PHC) to the Ethernet controller to use, such as NXP FMan MAC,
ENETC, etc. Therefore, a property is needed to indicate this hardware
relationship between the Ethernet controller and the PTP timer.

Since this use case is also very common, it is better to add a generic
property to ethernet-controller.yaml. According to the existing binding
docs, there are two good candidates, one is the "ptp-timer" defined in
fsl,fman-dtsec.yaml, and the other is the "ptimer-handle" defined in
fsl,fman.yaml. From the perspective of the name, the former is more
straightforward, so move the "ptp-timer" from fsl,fman-dtsec.yaml to
ethernet-controller.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250829050615.1247468-3-wei.fang@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Wei Fang 2025-08-29 13:06:03 +08:00 committed by Paolo Abeni
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commit db2d2de1c2
2 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ properties:
$ref: "#/properties/phy-handle"
deprecated: true
ptp-timer:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
description:
Specifies a reference to a node representing an IEEE 1588 PTP device.
rx-fifo-depth:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
description:

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@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ properties:
An array of two references: the first is the FMan RX port and the second
is the TX port used by this MAC.
ptp-timer:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
description: A reference to the IEEE1588 timer
phys:
description: A reference to the SerDes lane(s)
maxItems: 1