The KMSG_COMPONENT macro is a leftover of the s390 specific "kernel message
catalog" from 2008 [1] which never made it upstream.
The macro was added to s390 code to allow for an out-of-tree patch which
used this to generate unique message ids. Also this out-of-tree doesn't
exist anymore.
The pattern of how the KMSG_COMPONENT is used was partially also used for
non s390 specific code, for whatever reasons.
Remove the macro in order to get rid of a pointless indirection.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/292650/
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126142242.2124317-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
*
* Copyright IBM Corp. 2025
*/
-#define KMSG_COMPONENT "dibs"
-#define pr_fmt(fmt) KMSG_COMPONENT ": " fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "dibs: " fmt
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/types.h>