diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/examples/go.mod b/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/examples/go.mod
index 7f255b4513e..362a3e22177 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/examples/go.mod
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/examples/go.mod
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ require (
 	k8s.io/api v0.0.0
 	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0
 	k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0
+	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.120.1
 	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20240228011516-70dd3763d340
 	sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 v4.4.1
 )
@@ -45,7 +46,6 @@ require (
 	gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
-	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.120.1 // indirect
 	k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20230726121419-3b25d923346b // indirect
 	sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20221116044647-bc3834ca7abd // indirect
 	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0 // indirect