diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/intel.c b/drivers/soundwire/intel.c
index f72d36654ac2a..38e7f1a2bb97d 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/intel.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/intel.c
@@ -1298,6 +1298,9 @@ static int intel_link_probe(struct auxiliary_device *auxdev,
 	/* use generic bandwidth allocation algorithm */
 	sdw->cdns.bus.compute_params = sdw_compute_params;
 
+	/* avoid resuming from pm_runtime suspend if it's not required */
+	dev_pm_set_driver_flags(dev, DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND);
+
 	ret = sdw_bus_master_add(bus, dev, dev->fwnode);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(dev, "sdw_bus_master_add fail: %d\n", ret);