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authorUlf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>2021-06-09 12:06:10 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2021-06-11 19:04:07 +0200
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PM: runtime: Clarify documentation when callbacks are unassigned
Recent changes to the PM core allows ->runtime_suspend|resume callbacks to be unassigned. In the earlier behaviour the PM core would return -ENOSYS, when trying to runtime resume a device, for example. Let's update the documentation to clarify this. Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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@@ -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
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