diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
index b79aa8f7a49714441fe5cb204f45a48fe4c6034f..e0700bf4893a31e4e4f148ae26e95b509c8b6cbd 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+config DAX_DRIVER
+	select DAX
+	bool
+
 menuconfig DAX
 	tristate "DAX: direct access to differentiated memory"
 	select SRCU
@@ -16,7 +20,6 @@ config DEV_DAX
 	  baseline memory pool.  Mappings of a /dev/daxX.Y device impose
 	  restrictions that make the mapping behavior deterministic.
 
-
 config DEV_DAX_PMEM
 	tristate "PMEM DAX: direct access to persistent memory"
 	depends on LIBNVDIMM && NVDIMM_DAX && DEV_DAX
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig b/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
index a65f2e1d9f531d35104815583579e6a002c17949..40cbdb16e23e8d44277ae8820458bbcc05a829b6 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ if LIBNVDIMM
 config BLK_DEV_PMEM
 	tristate "PMEM: Persistent memory block device support"
 	default LIBNVDIMM
-	select DAX
+	select DAX_DRIVER
 	select ND_BTT if BTT
 	select ND_PFN if NVDIMM_PFN
 	help
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/Kconfig b/drivers/s390/block/Kconfig
index 1444333210c74929479cdaf2b9b411b74eb74b95..9ac7574e3cfb16be04c213fa02d3fb988f0fa5d0 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/Kconfig
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ config BLK_DEV_XPRAM
 
 config DCSSBLK
 	def_tristate m
-	select DAX
 	select FS_DAX_LIMITED
+	select DAX_DRIVER
 	prompt "DCSSBLK support"
 	depends on S390 && BLOCK
 	help