diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
index 1679bba5d75..24d238f96df 100644
--- a/Kconfig
+++ b/Kconfig
@@ -804,14 +804,14 @@ config NO_NET
 
 config NET
 	bool "Legacy U-Boot networking stack"
-	imply NETDEVICES
+	select NETDEVICES
 	help
 	  Include networking support with U-Boot's internal implementation of
 	  the TCP/IP protocol stack.
 
 config NET_LWIP
 	bool "Use lwIP for networking stack"
-	imply NETDEVICES
+	select NETDEVICES
 	help
 	  Include networking support based on the lwIP (lightweight IP)
 	  TCP/IP stack (https://nongnu.org/lwip). This is a replacement for
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 02063ce3aa9..9d4e9f06970 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ config DSA_SANDBOX
 	  Ethernet device used as DSA master, to test DSA class code, including
 	  exported DSA API and datapath processing of Ethernet traffic.
 
-menuconfig NETDEVICES
-	bool "Network device support"
-	depends on NET || NET_LWIP
+menu "Network device support"
+
+config NETDEVICES
+	bool
 	select DM_ETH
 	help
 	  You must select Y to enable any network device support
@@ -1106,3 +1107,5 @@ source "drivers/net/pfe_eth/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/net/fsl-mc/Kconfig"
 
 endif # NETDEVICES
+
+endmenu