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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt4
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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,