diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
index c94bb6aded51ad6f731cc8d16380ab4be640fa4c..efaff368ee945d4a6b1e8f9d19d517cb84116600 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
@@ -25,17 +25,9 @@ config RTC_HCTOSYS
 	  the value read from a specified RTC device. This is useful to avoid
 	  unnecessary fsck runs at boot time, and to network better.
 
-config RTC_SYSTOHC
-	bool "Set the RTC time based on NTP synchronization"
-	default y
-	help
-	  If you say yes here, the system time (wall clock) will be stored
-	  in the RTC specified by RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE approximately every 11
-	  minutes if userspace reports synchronized NTP status.
-
 config RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE
 	string "RTC used to set the system time"
-	depends on RTC_HCTOSYS = y || RTC_SYSTOHC = y
+	depends on RTC_HCTOSYS
 	default "rtc0"
 	help
 	  The RTC device that will be used to (re)initialize the system
@@ -56,6 +48,25 @@ config RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE
 	  sleep states. Do not specify an RTC here unless it stays powered
 	  during all this system's supported sleep states.
 
+config RTC_SYSTOHC
+	bool "Set the RTC time based on NTP synchronization"
+	default y
+	help
+	  If you say yes here, the system time (wall clock) will be stored
+	  in the RTC specified by RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE approximately every 11
+	  minutes if userspace reports synchronized NTP status.
+
+config RTC_SYSTOHC_DEVICE
+	string "RTC used to synchronize NTP adjustment"
+	depends on RTC_SYSTOHC
+	default RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE if RTC_HCTOSYS
+	default "rtc0"
+	help
+	  The RTC device used for NTP synchronization. The main difference
+	  between RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE and RTC_SYSTOHC_DEVICE is that this
+	  one can sleep when setting time, because it runs in the workqueue
+	  context.
+
 config RTC_DEBUG
 	bool "RTC debug support"
 	help
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/systohc.c b/drivers/rtc/systohc.c
index 7728d5e32bf4921d7bfd02cabe4b5c1ea124a6bd..b4a68ffcd06bb876231f2893de69f30a8fe854d9 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/systohc.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/systohc.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ int rtc_set_ntp_time(struct timespec64 now)
 	else
 		rtc_time64_to_tm(now.tv_sec + 1, &tm);
 
-	rtc = rtc_class_open(CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE);
+	rtc = rtc_class_open(CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC_DEVICE);
 	if (rtc) {
 		/* rtc_hctosys exclusively uses UTC, so we call set_time here,
 		 * not set_mmss. */