diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/rhel.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/rhel.rst
index f8b26069fe..6f062e8944 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/rhel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/rhel.rst
@@ -197,17 +197,16 @@ the unit tests, run::
 Kernel Module
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy
-rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files into the RPM sources directory and run::
+On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module run::
 
-    $ rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+    $ rpmbuild -bb rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
 
 You might have to specify a kernel version and/or variants, e.g.:
 
     $ rpmbuild -bb \
         -D "kversion 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64" \
         -D "kflavors default debug kdump" \
-        rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+        rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
 
 This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, in this
 example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and
diff --git a/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml b/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml
index 71f1040101..e902db75d4 100644
--- a/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml
+++ b/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@
         chdir: /git/ovs/rhel
     with_items:
       - openvswitch.spec
-      - openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+      - kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
 
   - name: Install build dependencies specified from spec files
     shell: echo "y" | yum-builddep /tmp/{{item}}
     with_items:
       - openvswitch.spec
-      - openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+      - kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
 
   - name: Create rpm dev tree
     command: rpmdev-setuptree
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
       line: "Release: {{ ansible_local.builder.release }}"
     with_items:
       - openvswitch.spec
-      - openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+      - kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
 
   - name: Build Open vSwitch user space rpms
     command: rpmbuild -bb --without check rhel/openvswitch.spec
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         chdir: "{{SOURCE}}/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}"
 
   - name: Build Open vSwitch kmod rpms (only for currently loaded kernel)
-    command: rpmbuild -bb  --without check rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+    command: rpmbuild -bb  --without check rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
     args:
         chdir: "{{SOURCE}}/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}"
 
diff --git a/rhel/.gitignore b/rhel/.gitignore
index e584a1ed00..a9c047f83e 100644
--- a/rhel/.gitignore
+++ b/rhel/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 openvswitch-dkms.spec
 openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec
-openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec
 openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec
 openvswitch.spec
 openvswitch-fedora.spec
diff --git a/rhel/automake.mk b/rhel/automake.mk
index 137ff4a39a..82a450831a 100644
--- a/rhel/automake.mk
+++ b/rhel/automake.mk
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
 	rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs \
 	rhel/openvswitch-dkms.spec \
 	rhel/openvswitch-dkms.spec.in \
-	rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec \
-	rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in \
+	rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec \
+	rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in \
 	rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files \
 	rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec \
 	rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in \
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ update_rhel_spec = \
 $(srcdir)/rhel/openvswitch-dkms.spec: rhel/openvswitch-dkms.spec.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
 	$(update_rhel_spec)
 
-$(srcdir)/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec: rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
+$(srcdir)/rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec: rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
 	$(update_rhel_spec)
 
 $(srcdir)/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec: rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in b/rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in
similarity index 100%
rename from rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
rename to rhel/kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec.in