diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 6eb48e1..bad5243 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs);
 static int load_elf_library(struct file *);
 static unsigned long elf_map (struct file *, unsigned long, struct elf_phdr *, int, int);
-extern int dump_fpu (struct pt_regs *, elf_fpregset_t *);
 
 #ifndef elf_addr_t
 #define elf_addr_t unsigned long
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 4346468..20f7333 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include "internal.h"
 
 struct bdev_inode {
 	struct block_device bdev;
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 1f3285a..a885f46 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
 #endif
+#include "internal.h"
 
 /*
  * capabilities for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and similar directly mappable character
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index ce982f6..122b4e3 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -52,11 +52,12 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/ioctls.h>
-
-extern void sigset_from_compat(sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
+#include "internal.h"
 
 int compat_log = 1;
 
+extern void sigset_from_compat(sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
+
 int compat_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list ap;
@@ -313,9 +314,6 @@
 #define IOCTL_HASHSIZE 256
 static struct ioctl_trans *ioctl32_hash_table[IOCTL_HASHSIZE];
 
-extern struct ioctl_trans ioctl_start[];
-extern int ioctl_table_size;
-
 static inline unsigned long ioctl32_hash(unsigned long cmd)
 {
 	return (((cmd >> 6) ^ (cmd >> 4) ^ cmd)) % IOCTL_HASHSIZE;
@@ -838,8 +836,6 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-extern int copy_mount_options (const void __user *, unsigned long *);
-
 #define SMBFS_NAME      "smbfs"
 #define NCPFS_NAME      "ncpfs"
 #define NFS4_NAME	"nfs4"
diff --git a/fs/compat_ioctl.c b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
index 4063a93..ab74c9b 100644
--- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -1279,8 +1279,6 @@
 	return err;
 }
 
-extern int tty_ioctl(struct inode * inode, struct file * file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_VT
 
 static int vt_check(struct file *file)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 17b392a..fc2faa4 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <linux/seqlock.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include "internal.h"
 
 
 int sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure __read_mostly = 100;
@@ -1877,9 +1878,6 @@
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_genocide);
 
-extern void bdev_cache_init(void);
-extern void chrdev_init(void);
-
 void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
 {
 	dcache_init_early();
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 892643d..0639024 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
-
-extern struct super_block *blockdev_superblock;
+#include "internal.h"
 
 /**
  *	__mark_inode_dirty -	internal function
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c21ecd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* fs/ internal definitions
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/ioctl32.h>
+
+/*
+ * block_dev.c
+ */
+extern struct super_block *blockdev_superblock;
+extern void __init bdev_cache_init(void);
+
+/*
+ * char_dev.c
+ */
+extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
+
+/*
+ * compat_ioctl.c
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+extern struct ioctl_trans ioctl_start[];
+extern int ioctl_table_size;
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * namespace.c
+ */
+extern int copy_mount_options(const void __user *, unsigned long *);
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 6ede3a5..66d921e 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -24,12 +24,11 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/ramfs.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 #include "pnode.h"
 
-extern int __init init_rootfs(void);
-
 /* spinlock for vfsmount related operations, inplace of dcache_lock */
 __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vfsmount_lock);