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[PATCH v2] PM / runtime: Document steps for device removal

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Put a reminder that during device removal drivers should revert all PM
runtime changes from the probe.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

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Changes since v1:
1. Address Alan's comments.
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 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,
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[PATCH v2] PM / runtime: Document steps for device removal Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> - 2016-04-03 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] PM / runtime: Document steps for device removal Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-04-03 20:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] PM / runtime: Document steps for device removal "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-04-07 01:40 +0200

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