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Message-Id: <1459653787-5963-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 12:23:07 +0900 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> Subject: [PATCH v2] PM / runtime: Document steps for device removal Put a reminder that during device removal drivers should revert all PM runtime changes from the probe. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> --- Changes since v1: 1. Address Alan's comments. --- Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt index 7328cf85236c..1fd1fbe9ce95 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt @@ -586,6 +586,10 @@ drivers to make their ->remove() callbacks avoid races with runtime PM directly, but also it allows of more flexibility in the handling of devices during the removal of their drivers. +Drivers in ->remove() callback should undo the runtime PM changes done +in ->probe(). Usually this means calling pm_runtime_disable(), +pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend() etc. + The user space can effectively disallow the driver of the device to power manage it at run time by changing the value of its /sys/devices/.../power/control attribute to "on", which causes pm_runtime_forbid() to be called. In principle, -- 2.1.4
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