diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
index 5ef624fe3934..a59f338f520f 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ config DEV_DAX
 config DEV_DAX_PMEM
 	tristate "PMEM DAX: direct access to persistent memory"
 	depends on LIBNVDIMM && NVDIMM_DAX && DEV_DAX
-	depends on m # until we can kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
 	default DEV_DAX
 	help
 	  Support raw access to persistent memory.  Note that this
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ config DEV_DAX_KMEM
 
 config DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
 	tristate "PMEM DAX: support the deprecated /sys/class/dax interface"
-	depends on DEV_DAX_PMEM
+	depends on m && DEV_DAX_PMEM=m
 	default DEV_DAX_PMEM
 	help
 	  Older versions of the libdaxctl library expect to find all