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@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

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,