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diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_driver.h b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_driver.h
index 5517c26ba4..3ecb379326 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_driver.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_driver.h
@@ -136,6 +136,22 @@ typedef struct {
#define ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION 0
/*
+ * The emulator will refuse to load a driver with a major version
+ * lower than ERL_DRV_MIN_REQUIRED_MAJOR_VERSION_ON_LOAD. The load
+ * may however fail if user have not removed use of deprecated
+ * symbols.
+ *
+ * The ERL_DRV_MIN_REQUIRED_MAJOR_VERSION_ON_LOAD have to allow
+ * loading of drivers built at least two major OTP releases
+ * ago.
+ *
+ * Bump of major version to 3 happened in OTP 17. That is, in
+ * OTP 19 we can increase ERL_DRV_MIN_REQUIRED_MAJOR_VERSION_ON_LOAD
+ * to 3.
+ */
+#define ERL_DRV_MIN_REQUIRED_MAJOR_VERSION_ON_LOAD 2
+
+/*
* The emulator will refuse to load a driver with different major
* version than the one used by the emulator.
*/