diff --git a/arch/riscv/core/stacktrace.c b/arch/riscv/core/stacktrace.c
index 99e4655e80b..20f96efd1b0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/core/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/core/stacktrace.c
@@ -248,20 +248,20 @@ static bool in_fatal_stack_bound(uintptr_t addr, const struct k_thread *const th
 #define PR_REG "%016" PRIxPTR
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE_SYMTAB
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYMTAB
 #define LOG_STACK_TRACE(idx, ra, name, offset)                                                     \
 	LOG_ERR("     %2d: ra: " PR_REG " [%s+0x%x]", idx, ra, name, offset)
 #else
 #define LOG_STACK_TRACE(idx, ra, name, offset) LOG_ERR("     %2d: ra: " PR_REG, idx, ra)
-#endif /* CONFIG_EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE_SYMTAB */
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYMTAB */
 
 static bool print_trace_address(void *arg, unsigned long ra)
 {
 	int *i = arg;
-#ifdef CONFIG_EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE_SYMTAB
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYMTAB
 	uint32_t offset = 0;
 	const char *name = symtab_find_symbol_name(ra, &offset);
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYMTAB */
 
 	LOG_STACK_TRACE((*i)++, ra, name, offset);
 
diff --git a/subsys/debug/Kconfig b/subsys/debug/Kconfig
index 0f34f75e68f..70779c2736c 100644
--- a/subsys/debug/Kconfig
+++ b/subsys/debug/Kconfig
@@ -387,15 +387,6 @@ config EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE
 	  print a stack trace of function memory addresses when an
 	  exception is reported.
 
-config EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE_SYMTAB
-	bool "Print function names in the stack trace"
-	select SYMTAB
-	depends on EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE
-	help
-	  Enable this if you want to print the function names in the
-	  stack trace output. This will generate the symtab and
-	  can consume a lot of ROM if there's a lot of functions.
-
 #
 # Miscellaneous debugging options
 #
diff --git a/tests/arch/common/stack_unwind/testcase.yaml b/tests/arch/common/stack_unwind/testcase.yaml
index 4a7d4994cb2..c10b98757cd 100644
--- a/tests/arch/common/stack_unwind/testcase.yaml
+++ b/tests/arch/common/stack_unwind/testcase.yaml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ tests:
       - qemu_cortex_a53
     extra_configs:
       - CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
-      - CONFIG_EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE_SYMTAB=y
+      - CONFIG_SYMTAB=y
     harness_config:
       type: multi_line
       regex: