diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 33ca29333e1808ae4dc0f9e8875902ae2bb307f5..886417992e3c857ae916e91bff8d12b37dd48c0e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -169,9 +169,7 @@ unsigned long decompress_kernel(void)
 	free_mem_ptr = (unsigned long) &_end;
 	free_mem_end_ptr = free_mem_ptr + HEAP_SIZE;
 
-	puts("Uncompressing Linux... ");
 	__decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, 0, NULL, error);
-	puts("Ok, booting the kernel.\n");
 	return (unsigned long) output;
 }