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>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

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
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