diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 51f78a28072a..40cdae75e3b4 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ source "fs/notify/Kconfig"
 
 source "fs/quota/Kconfig"
 
+source "fs/autofs/Kconfig"
 source "fs/autofs4/Kconfig"
 source "fs/fuse/Kconfig"
 source "fs/overlayfs/Kconfig"
diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile
index c9375fd2c8c4..2e005525cc19 100644
--- a/fs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/Makefile
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_AFFS_FS)		+= affs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ROMFS_FS)		+= romfs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS)		+= qnx4/
 obj-$(CONFIG_QNX6FS_FS)		+= qnx6/
+obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS)		+= autofs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS)	+= autofs4/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ADFS_FS)		+= adfs/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FUSE_FS)		+= fuse/
diff --git a/fs/autofs/Kconfig b/fs/autofs/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6a2064eb3b27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/autofs/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+config AUTOFS_FS
+	tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
+	default n
+	help
+	   The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
+	   on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
+	   overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
+	   automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
+
+	   To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
+	   <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
+	   to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
+
+	   To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
+	   called autofs.
+
+	   If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
+	   don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
+	   local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
+	   N here.
diff --git a/fs/autofs/Makefile b/fs/autofs/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..43fedde15c26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/autofs/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#
+# Makefile for the linux autofs-filesystem routines.
+#
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS) += autofs.o
+
+autofs-objs := init.o inode.o root.o symlink.o waitq.o expire.o dev-ioctl.o
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
index 53bc592a250d..2c2fdf989f90 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 config AUTOFS4_FS
 	tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3 and v5)"
 	default n
+	depends on AUTOFS_FS = n
 	help
 	  The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
 	  on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
@@ -30,3 +31,10 @@ config AUTOFS4_FS
 	  - any "alias autofs autofs4" will need to be removed.
 
 	  Please configure AUTOFS_FS instead of AUTOFS4_FS from now on.
+
+	  NOTE: Since the modules autofs and autofs4 use the same file system
+		type name of "autofs" only one can be built. The "depends"
+		above will result in AUTOFS4_FS not appearing in .config for
+		any setting of AUTOFS_FS other than n and AUTOFS4_FS will
+		appear under the AUTOFS_FS entry otherwise which is intended
+		to draw attention to the module rename change.