diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/signal_n32.c b/arch/mips/kernel/signal_n32.c
index 477c5334ec1b459eefb010c9ef5918ca1358b47b..50c17eaa7f252c0012efb15054c25797a793cea4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/signal_n32.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/signal_n32.c
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 
 #include "signal-common.h"
 
+extern void sigset_from_compat(sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
+
 /*
  * Including <asm/unistd.h> would give use the 64-bit syscall numbers ...
  */
@@ -81,8 +83,6 @@ struct rt_sigframe_n32 {
 #endif
 };
 
-extern void sigset_from_compat (sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
-
 save_static_function(sysn32_rt_sigsuspend);
 __attribute_used__ noinline static int
 _sysn32_rt_sigsuspend(nabi_no_regargs struct pt_regs regs)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 6eb48e1446ecb4fd7c239f2cdca17e7faef89c28..bad52433de69dc01cc836292938607fa02628e20 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 4346468139e80247e6db85d389a072cedf0d52a0..20f7333ba372b1b86cdc2d00d92dc63ae186fd1b 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 1f3285affa39c9d06da9fb3af7bee91094d894f9..a885f46ca001f117a9b8bc3bd4ac0e140b5c9e3e 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 ce982f6e8c80270be3fd23f8f9553c486626986e..122b4e3992b54b322d40ef84814c95048ca00472 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 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_fstatfs64(unsigned int fd, compat_size_t sz, struct c
 #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 @@ static int do_nfs4_super_data_conv(void *raw_data)
 	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 4063a939697768d990faa971a4488efe21f80dcb..ab74c9bd55fecf27a24d6bd4b696a5ea2f7c73a6 100644
--- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -1279,8 +1279,6 @@ static int loop_status(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	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 17b392a2049ebfb9b39103ecedbd9fe6ec884828..fc2faa44f8d185b6be9b8600a4ffb9991d5b980f 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 @@ kmem_cache_t *filp_cachep __read_mostly;
 
 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 892643dc9af10a1a6fbf7c858fd430ab209a5724..0639024d83a98e95a69c2be9bac2c8c548c0de43 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 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c21ecd37b1e79d9104d326a25d5cb4ebba2f576c
--- /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 6ede3a539ed82acb0eca0781ce78ba2fd86db1df..66d921e14feebaa532bed7e6a041ba08e5057a8c 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);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/ramfs.h b/include/linux/ramfs.h
index 00b340ba66127131b5f4a3790d649b1bc33c5256..b160fb18e8d6ce6f724827fe19fd31dfe748ddb8 100644
--- a/include/linux/ramfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ramfs.h
@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ extern int ramfs_nommu_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 
 extern const struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations;
 extern struct vm_operations_struct generic_file_vm_ops;
+extern int __init init_rootfs(void);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index ea4c2605f8da8836128fd2e2f4fe7e712d536ee5..44091c0db0b46b473234172a91d983319648e7ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ extern void tty_ldisc_put(int);
 extern void tty_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_ldisc_flush(struct tty_struct *tty);
 
+extern int tty_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
+		     unsigned long arg);
+
 extern struct mutex tty_mutex;
 
 /* n_tty.c */
diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index 75573e5d27b05c92dd1a11aaf483415935032624..b4fbd838cd775ac9007af6e7d566652e1ad629de 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
+extern void sigset_from_compat(sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
+
 int get_compat_timespec(struct timespec *ts, const struct compat_timespec __user *cts)
 {
 	return (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, cts, sizeof(*cts)) ||