diff --git a/drivers/staging/csr/os.c b/drivers/staging/csr/os.c
index 35dc9087d79f..0d9842a894c8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/csr/os.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/csr/os.c
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ dump16(void *mem, u16 len)
 void
 dump_str(void *mem, u16 len)
 {
-    int i, col = 0;
+    int i;
     unsigned char *pdata = (unsigned char *)mem;
 #ifdef ANDROID_TIMESTAMP
     printk("timestamp %s \n", print_time());
@@ -467,9 +467,7 @@ dump_str(void *mem, u16 len)
     for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
         printk("%c", pdata[i]);
     }
-    if (col) {
-        printk("\n");
-    }
+	printk("\n");
 
 } /* dump_str() */
 #endif /* CSR_ONLY_NOTES */