diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx-ops.h b/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx-ops.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24235ef8c8faffeeea9597bfe3ea87ea201188d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx-ops.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-3-Clause) */
+
+#ifndef __IMX_OPS_H__
+#define __IMX_OPS_H__
+
+extern struct snd_sof_dsp_ops sof_imx8_ops;
+extern struct snd_sof_dsp_ops sof_imx8x_ops;
+extern struct snd_sof_dsp_ops sof_imx8m_ops;
+
+#endif
diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8.c b/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8.c
index b75608ef33a81fb4838c7c930901eeb2962e9e76..c61c0e3a56a0e027661ed8fccf9d304b267bf0cd 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <dt-bindings/firmware/imx/rsrc.h>
 #include "../ops.h"
 #include "imx-common.h"
+#include "imx-ops.h"
 
 /* DSP memories */
 #define IRAM_OFFSET		0x10000
diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8m.c b/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8m.c
index 969117e5476747a3aa7d00401f9ec41eb8a57856..7983b1e5e3c28098895f458b87177fd7a1cf1e2c 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8m.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8m.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 #include "../ops.h"
 #include "imx-common.h"
+#include "imx-ops.h"
 
 #define MBOX_OFFSET	0x800000
 #define MBOX_SIZE	0x1000
diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/sof-of-dev.c b/sound/soc/sof/sof-of-dev.c
index d1a21edfa05d07fef554ea2790383b41722186fc..f0f819a46456100f78e4ee14920759457f43ec15 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sof/sof-of-dev.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/sof-of-dev.c
@@ -11,10 +11,7 @@
 #include <sound/sof.h>
 
 #include "ops.h"
-
-extern struct snd_sof_dsp_ops sof_imx8_ops;
-extern struct snd_sof_dsp_ops sof_imx8x_ops;
-extern struct snd_sof_dsp_ops sof_imx8m_ops;
+#include "imx/imx-ops.h"
 
 /* platform specific devices */
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_SOC_SOF_IMX8)