+#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
+/**
+ * destroy_suspended_device - asks the PM core to remove a suspended device
+ * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device was registered with
+ * @devt: the dev_t of the device that was previously registered
+ *
+ * This call notifies the PM core of the necessity to unregister a suspended
+ * device created with a call to device_create() (devices cannot be
+ * unregistered directly while suspended, since the PM core holds their
+ * semaphores at that time).
+ *
+ * It can only be called within the scope of a system sleep transition. In
+ * practice this means it has to be directly or indirectly invoked either by
+ * a suspend or resume method, or by the PM core (e.g. via
+ * disable_nonboot_cpus() or enable_nonboot_cpus()).
+ */
+void destroy_suspended_device(struct class *class, dev_t devt)
+{
+ struct device *dev;
+
+ dev = find_device(class, devt);
+ if (dev)
+ device_pm_schedule_removal(dev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(destroy_suspended_device);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM_SLEEP */
+