diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix
index 4ce6a37e689c..7ecff5207df8 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/common-config.nix
@@ -710,6 +710,7 @@ let
 
       HWMON         = yes;
       THERMAL_HWMON = yes; # Hardware monitoring support
+      NVME_HWMON    = whenAtLeast "5.5" yes; # NVMe drives temperature reporting
       UEVENT_HELPER = no;
 
       USERFAULTFD   = yes;