diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3750d2cf27b4..08e3405dae82 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 48e41899e4a3592746e5263c14681bf5c1393563
+refs/heads/master: ae29bc92da01a2e9d278a9a58c3b307d41cc0254
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/printk.c b/trunk/kernel/printk.c
index 286d2c7be52c..1455a0d4eedd 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/printk.c
@@ -595,9 +595,6 @@ static size_t log_prefix(const char *p, unsigned int *level, char *special)
 		/* multi digit including the level and facility number */
 		char *endp = NULL;
 
-		if (p[1] < '0' || p[1] > '9')
-			return 0;
-
 		lev = (simple_strtoul(&p[1], &endp, 10) & 7);
 		if (endp == NULL || endp[0] != '>')
 			return 0;