diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
index 6aaad83c9ff3..4058f4e50441 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Use `services.pipewire.extraConfig` or `services.pipewire.configPackages` for Pi
 - `system.etc.overlay.enable` option was added. If enabled, `/etc` is
   mounted via an overlayfs instead of being created by a custom perl script.
 
-- For each supporting version of the Linux kernel firmware blobs and kernel modules
+- For each supporting version of the Linux kernel firmware blobs
   are compressed with zstd. For firmware blobs this means an increase of 4.4% in size, however
   a significantly higher decompression speed.
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix
index cf38897c5070..62922d442697 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix
@@ -951,8 +951,7 @@ let
       ZEROPLUS_FF        = yes;
 
       MODULE_COMPRESS      = whenOlder "5.13" yes;
-      MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ   = whenOlder "5.13" yes;
-      MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD = whenAtLeast "5.13" yes;
+      MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ   = yes;
 
       SYSVIPC            = yes;  # System-V IPC