diff --git a/linux-tkg-config/prepare b/linux-tkg-config/prepare
index 932b794c..70e6b0e1 100644
--- a/linux-tkg-config/prepare
+++ b/linux-tkg-config/prepare
@@ -1043,13 +1043,10 @@ _tkg_srcprep() {
   if [[ "$_distro" = "Debian" || "$_distro" = "Ubuntu" ]]; then
     #Help Debian cert compile problem.
     scripts/config --set-str "SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS" ""
-    #Debian/Ubuntu don't properly support zstd module compression
-    _disable "MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD"
-    _enable "MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE"
-    # 6.12 removed MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE, let's try gzip for debuntu instead of no compression
-    # dracut seems to search for gz by default also
-    if [[ $_kver -ge 612 ]]; then
-      _enable "MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP"
+    if [[ $_kver -lt 612 ]]; then # note: 6.12 removed MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE
+      #Debian/Ubuntu don't properly support zstd module compression
+      _disable "MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD"
+      _enable "MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE"
     fi
   fi
   # Skip dbg package creation on non-Arch