diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst index b48cac5f9048..d6bf84f061f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst @@ -831,6 +831,15 @@ or driver about runtime power changes. Instead, the driver for the device's parent must take responsibility for telling the device's driver when the parent's power state changes. +Note that, in some cases it may not be desirable for subsystems/drivers to call +pm_runtime_no_callbacks() for their devices. This could be because a subset of +the runtime PM callbacks needs to be implemented, a platform dependent PM +domain could get attached to the device or that the device is power managed +through a supplier device link. For these reasons and to avoid boilerplate code +in subsystems/drivers, the PM core allows runtime PM callbacks to be +unassigned. More precisely, if a callback pointer is NULL, the PM core will act +as though there was a callback and it returned 0. + 9. Autosuspend, or automatically-delayed suspends =================================================