[PATCH 0/5] PM: Enable option of re-use runtime PM callbacks at system suspend

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Len Brown wrote:

> This thread raises the question...
> 
> Do we still need to have PM_RUNTIME apart from PM_SLEEP?
> 
> What is the benefit of being able to build-in one one without the other?
> If that benefit is not significant, perhaps the time has come to
> replace them both with CONFIG_PM...

There are lots of embedded/SoC platforms that implement PM_RUNTIME but
not PM_SLEEP.

Alan Stern