diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile
index 03d3f3d7b1f8..277c1235eb32 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ libcfs-linux-objs += linux-mem.o
 libcfs-linux-objs := $(addprefix linux/,$(libcfs-linux-objs))
 
 libcfs-all-objs := debug.o fail.o module.o tracefile.o \
-		   libcfs_string.o hash.o kernel_user_comm.o \
-		   prng.o workitem.o libcfs_cpu.o \
-		   libcfs_mem.o libcfs_lock.o
+		   libcfs_string.o hash.o prng.o workitem.o \
+		   libcfs_cpu.o libcfs_mem.o libcfs_lock.o
 
 libcfs-objs := $(libcfs-linux-objs) $(libcfs-all-objs)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/Makefile b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/Makefile
index acc685712ce9..c404eb3864ff 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_LUSTRE_FS) += obdclass.o
 
 obdclass-y := linux/linux-module.o linux/linux-obdo.o linux/linux-sysctl.o \
 	      llog.o llog_cat.o llog_obd.o llog_swab.o class_obd.o debug.o \
-	      genops.o uuid.o lprocfs_status.o \
-	      lustre_handles.o lustre_peer.o \
-	      statfs_pack.o obdo.o obd_config.o obd_mount.o \
-	      lu_object.o cl_object.o   \
-	      cl_page.o cl_lock.o cl_io.o lu_ref.o acl.o lprocfs_counters.o
+	      genops.o uuid.o lprocfs_status.o lprocfs_counters.o \
+	      lustre_handles.o lustre_peer.o statfs_pack.o \
+	      obdo.o obd_config.o obd_mount.o lu_object.o lu_ref.o \
+	      cl_object.o cl_page.o cl_lock.o cl_io.o \
+	      acl.o kernelcomm.o
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/kernel_user_comm.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/kernelcomm.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/kernel_user_comm.c
rename to drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/kernelcomm.c