netdev - [PATCH v3 net-next 02/15] dt-bindings: net: add ptp-timer property

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Message-Id: <20250812094634.489901-3-wei.fang@nxp.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:46:21 +0800
From: Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 net-next 02/15] dt-bindings: net: add ptp-timer property

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 add the "ptp-timer" property.

Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>

---
v3 changes:
New patch, add a generic property instead of adding a property to
fsl,enetc.yaml
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml         | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml
index 66b1cfbbfe22..2c924d296a8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml
@@ -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:
-- 
2.34.1