diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c
index cb8d8391ac0bb67c815e45b90127f89a3f6368f5..52bcf58104e281f70b1041175f07a9978b7da740 100644
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -1186,9 +1186,9 @@ static int parse_options(struct super_block *sb, char *options, int is_vfat,
 out:
 	/* UTF-8 doesn't provide FAT semantics */
 	if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) {
-		fat_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "utf8 is not a recommended IO charset"
+		fat_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "utf8 is not a recommended IO charset"
 		       " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be "
-		       "case sensitive!\n");
+		       "case sensitive!");
 	}
 
 	/* If user doesn't specify allow_utime, it's initialized from dmask. */