Define pr_fmt to "brd: " in order to remove the duplicate brd prefix that makes pr_xxx() longer than it's needed. Note that this practice is been followed in most of the kernel module for the consistency of the driver messages so they become easy to grep/debug and not duplicate driver name in the pr_xxx() messages, Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/brd.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c index d878a7dc616b..23eea3a35438 100644 --- a/drivers/block/brd.c +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ #include <linux/uaccess.h> +#undef pr_fmt +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "brd: " fmt + /* * Each block ramdisk device has a xarray brd_pages of pages that stores * the pages containing the block device's contents. A brd page's ->index is @@ -397,7 +400,7 @@ static inline void brd_check_and_reset_par(void) max_part = 1UL << fls(max_part); if (max_part > DISK_MAX_PARTS) { - pr_info("brd: max_part can't be larger than %d, reset max_part = %d.\n", + pr_info("max_part can't be larger than %d, reset max_part = %d.\n", DISK_MAX_PARTS, DISK_MAX_PARTS); max_part = DISK_MAX_PARTS; } @@ -437,13 +440,13 @@ static int __init brd_init(void) goto out_free; } - pr_info("brd: module loaded\n"); + pr_info("module loaded\n"); return 0; out_free: brd_cleanup(); - pr_info("brd: module NOT loaded !!!\n"); + pr_info("module NOT loaded !!!\n"); return err; } @@ -453,7 +456,7 @@ static void __exit brd_exit(void) unregister_blkdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, "ramdisk"); brd_cleanup(); - pr_info("brd: module unloaded\n"); + pr_info("module unloaded\n"); } module_init(brd_init); -- 2.40.0