diff --git a/kconfigcheck.toml b/kconfigcheck.toml
index c0dde2a0f..3eac57298 100644
--- a/kconfigcheck.toml
+++ b/kconfigcheck.toml
@@ -85,11 +85,13 @@ LBDAF = "y"
 # Provide a proper dummy null console to improve compatibility
 # on devices that like to coerce console=null
 NULL_TTY = "m"
+# MODULE_COMPRESS was added after the individual compression algorithm options
+["category:default".">=6.12.0"."all"]
+MODULE_COMPRESS = "y"
 ["category:default".">=6.2.0"."all"]
 # MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD exists since 5.13, but since kernels prior to 6.2 cannot
 # decompress it, we would break devices with split initramfs which use busybox
 # modprobe, so we only enforce it on 6.2 or newer
-MODULE_COMPRESS = "y"
 MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD = "y"
 # MODULE_DECOMPRESS exists since 5.17, but can only decompress zstd since 6.2
 MODULE_DECOMPRESS = "y"