diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
index 3ec34ad0e893..5663cf799c95 100644
--- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
+++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
  * Based on rpmsg performance statistics driver by Michal Simek, which in turn
  * was based on TI & Google OMX rpmsg driver.
  */
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt)	KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
 #include <linux/cdev.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -536,7 +539,7 @@ static int rpmsg_chrdev_init(void)
 
 	ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&rpmsg_major, 0, RPMSG_DEV_MAX, "rpmsg");
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		pr_err("rpmsg: failed to allocate char dev region\n");
+		pr_err("failed to allocate char dev region\n");
 		return ret;
 	}
 
@@ -549,7 +552,7 @@ static int rpmsg_chrdev_init(void)
 
 	ret = register_rpmsg_driver(&rpmsg_chrdev_driver);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		pr_err("rpmsgchr: failed to register rpmsg driver\n");
+		pr_err("failed to register rpmsg driver\n");
 		class_destroy(rpmsg_class);
 		unregister_chrdev_region(rpmsg_major, RPMSG_DEV_MAX);
 	}