diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
index 998a5cfdbc4e9..662d219c39bf4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ if MD
 config BLK_DEV_MD
 	tristate "RAID support"
 	select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS
+	# BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD requirement should be removed
+	# after relevant mdadm enhancements - to make "names=yes"
+	# the default - are widely available.
+	select BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
 	help
 	  This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
 	  logical block device. This can be used to simply append one