diff --git a/kernel-open/dkms.conf b/kernel-open/dkms.conf
index aef54d352..276c61176 100644
--- a/kernel-open/dkms.conf
+++ b/kernel-open/dkms.conf
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AUTOINSTALL="yes"
 # this will cause the kernel module build to infer that it was invoked via
 # Kbuild directly instead of DKMS. The dkms(8) manual page recommends quoting
 # the 'make' command name to suppress this behavior.
-MAKE[0]="'make' -j__JOBS NV_EXCLUDE_BUILD_MODULES='__EXCLUDE_MODULES' KERNEL_UNAME=${kernelver} modules"
+MAKE[0]="'make' -j__JOBS NV_EXCLUDE_BUILD_MODULES='__EXCLUDE_MODULES' NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES='__EXCLUDE_MODULES' KERNEL_UNAME=${kernelver} modules"
 
 # The list of kernel modules will be generated by nvidia-installer at runtime.
 __DKMS_MODULES