diff --git a/drivers/bus/Kconfig b/drivers/bus/Kconfig
index 626960819e6d..7e9c2674af81 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/bus/Kconfig
@@ -58,6 +58,19 @@ config OMAP_OCP2SCP
 	  OCP2SCP and in OMAP5, both USB PHY and SATA PHY is connected via
 	  OCP2SCP.
 
+config SIMPLE_PM_BUS
+	bool "Simple Power-Managed Bus Driver"
+	depends on OF && PM
+	depends on ARCH_SHMOBILE || COMPILE_TEST
+	help
+	  Driver for transparent busses that don't need a real driver, but
+	  where the bus controller is part of a PM domain, or under the control
+	  of a functional clock, and thus relies on runtime PM for managing
+	  this PM domain and/or clock.
+	  An example of such a bus controller is the Renesas Bus State
+	  Controller (BSC, sometimes called "LBSC within Bus Bridge", or
+	  "External Bus Interface") as found on several Renesas ARM SoCs.
+
 config VEXPRESS_CONFIG
 	bool "Versatile Express configuration bus"
 	default y if ARCH_VEXPRESS
diff --git a/drivers/bus/Makefile b/drivers/bus/Makefile
index 3cfaf2c7f25a..e023a2bec664 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/bus/Makefile
@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MVEBU_MBUS) 	+= mvebu-mbus.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_OMAP_INTERCONNECT)	+= omap_l3_smx.o omap_l3_noc.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_OMAP_OCP2SCP)	+= omap-ocp2scp.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SIMPLE_PM_BUS)	+= simple-pm-bus.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VEXPRESS_CONFIG)	+= vexpress-config.o
diff --git a/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c b/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c5eb46cbf388
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ * Simple Power-Managed Bus Driver
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Glider bvba
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/of_platform.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
+
+
+static int simple_pm_bus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
+
+	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
+
+	pm_runtime_enable(&pdev->dev);
+
+	if (np)
+		of_platform_populate(np, NULL, NULL, &pdev->dev);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int simple_pm_bus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
+
+	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct of_device_id simple_pm_bus_of_match[] = {
+	{ .compatible = "simple-pm-bus", },
+	{ /* sentinel */ }
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, simple_pm_bus_of_match);
+
+static struct platform_driver simple_pm_bus_driver = {
+	.probe = simple_pm_bus_probe,
+	.remove = simple_pm_bus_remove,
+	.driver = {
+		.name = "simple-pm-bus",
+		.of_match_table = simple_pm_bus_of_match,
+	},
+};
+
+module_platform_driver(simple_pm_bus_driver);
+
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Simple Power-Managed Bus Driver");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");