diff --git a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
index 24418932612eeabc62d72185df50980ed55ee5bd..a041689e5701d7e1ed2a2677a30982827ee2276a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ static int create_pnp_modalias(struct acpi_device *acpi_dev, char *modalias,
 	int count;
 	struct acpi_hardware_id *id;
 
+	/* Avoid unnecessarily loading modules for non present devices. */
+	if (!acpi_device_is_present(acpi_dev))
+		return 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * Since we skip ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID from the modalias below, 0 should
 	 * be returned if ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID is the only ACPI/PNP ID in the