diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 9e607bf2d640..5a2907ee8c93 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -871,4 +871,17 @@ config S390_GUEST
 	  Select this option if you want to run the kernel as a guest under
 	  the KVM hypervisor.
 
+config S390_GUEST_OLD_TRANSPORT
+	def_bool y
+	prompt "Guest support for old s390 virtio transport (DEPRECATED)"
+	depends on S390_GUEST
+	help
+	  Enable this option to add support for the old s390-virtio
+	  transport (i.e. virtio devices NOT based on virtio-ccw). This
+	  type of virtio devices is only available on the experimental
+	  kuli userspace or with old (< 2.6) qemu. If you are running
+	  with a modern version of qemu (which supports virtio-ccw since
+	  1.4 and uses it by default since version 2.4), you probably won't
+	  need this.
+
 endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile b/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile
index 241891a57caf..df40692a9011 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile
@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 only)
 # as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_S390_GUEST) += kvm_virtio.o virtio_ccw.o
+s390-virtio-objs := virtio_ccw.o
+ifdef CONFIG_S390_GUEST_OLD_TRANSPORT
+s390-virtio-objs += kvm_virtio.o
+endif
+obj-$(CONFIG_S390_GUEST) += $(s390-virtio-objs)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c b/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
index b0a849f02df3..5e5c11f37b24 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ static int __init kvm_devices_init(void)
 	if (test_devices_support(total_memory_size) < 0)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	pr_warn("The s390-virtio transport is deprecated. Please switch to a modern host providing virtio-ccw.\n");
+
 	rc = vmem_add_mapping(total_memory_size, PAGE_SIZE);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;