diff --git a/drivers/media/Kconfig b/drivers/media/Kconfig
index b36a41332867..a227f065398b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/media/Kconfig
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ config MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT
 	depends on HAS_IOMEM
 	select I2C
 	select I2C_MUX
-	default y if !EMBEDDED
+	default n
 	help
 	  By default, a media driver auto-selects all possible ancillary
 	  devices such as tuners, sensors, video encoders/decoders and