diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index f492274..98b882c 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -284,10 +284,6 @@ endif
 #
 # run ./configure --help for information on how to do this cleanly.
 LIBCFLAGS=@LIBCFLAGS@ -D__PVFS2_CLIENT__
-KLIBCFLAGS=$(LIBCFLAGS) -D__KERNEL__ -I@LINUX_KERNEL_SRC@/include -Wall \
-	   -I . -I $(srcdir) -I $(srcdir)/include -Wstrict-prototypes -Wcast-align -Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-prototypes \
-	   -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -fno-stack-protector
-KLIBCFLAGS+=$(patsubst %,-I$(srcdir)/%,$(INCLUDES))
 LIBTHREADEDCFLAGS=-D__GEN_POSIX_LOCKING__ -D__PVFS2_JOB_THREADED__ -D__PVFS2_CLIENT__
 LIBS += @THREAD_LIB@
 LIBS_THREADED += @THREAD_LIB@
@@ -404,9 +400,6 @@ ADMINSRC :=
 ADMINSRC_SERVER :=
 # LIBSRC is source code for libpvfs2
 LIBSRC :=
-# LIBKSRC is source code for a small portion of libpvfs2 that we use in the
-# kernel 
-LIBKSRC :=
 # SERVERSRC is souce code for the pvfs2 server
 SERVERSRC :=
 # DOCSRC is source code for documentation
@@ -442,7 +435,6 @@ endif
 # LIBRARIES is a list of the pvfs2 client libraries
 LIBRARIES :=
 LIBRARIES_THREADED :=
-KLIBRARIES :=
 ifeq ($(build_shared),yes)
 LIBRARIES_SHARED = lib/libpvfs2.so
 LIBRARIES += $(LIBRARIES_SHARED)
@@ -453,7 +445,6 @@ LIBRARIES += $(LIBRARIES_STATIC)
 LIBRARIES_THREADED_STATIC = lib/libpvfs2-threaded.a
 LIBRARIES_THREADED += $(LIBRARIES_THREADED_STATIC)
 endif
-KLIBRARIES += lib/libkpvfs2.a
 
 ################################################################
 # Default target forward pointer, to avoid other targets in make stubs
@@ -477,8 +468,6 @@ include $(patsubst %, %/module.mk, $(MODULES))
 
 # LIBOBJS is a list of objects to put in the client lib
 LIBOBJS := $(patsubst %.c,%.o, $(filter %.c,$(LIBSRC)))
-# LIBKOBJS is a subset of objects to put in the client lib in kernel
-LIBKOBJS := $(patsubst %.c,%-kernel.o, $(filter %.c,$(LIBKSRC)))
 # LIBPICOBJS are the same, but compiled for use in a shared library
 LIBPICOBJS := $(patsubst %.c,%.po, $(filter %.c,$(LIBSRC)))
 # LIBDEPENDS is a list of dependency files for the client lib
@@ -565,7 +554,7 @@ DEPENDS := $(sort $(LIBDEPENDS) $(SERVERDEPENDS) $(MISCDEPENDS) \
 # Rules and dependencies
 
 # default rule builds server, library, and applications
-all:: $(SERVER) $(KARMA) $(LIBRARIES) $(KLIBRARIES) admintools $(VISS) $(KARMA)
+all:: $(SERVER) $(KARMA) $(LIBRARIES) admintools $(VISS) $(KARMA)
 
 # target for building admin tools
 admintools: $(ADMINTOOLS) $(ADMINTOOLS_SERVER)
@@ -642,11 +631,6 @@ lib/libpvfs2.a: $(LIBOBJS)
 	$(E)$(INSTALL) -d lib
 	$(E)ar rcs $@ $(LIBOBJS)
 
-lib/libkpvfs2.a: $(LIBKOBJS)
-	$(Q) "  LD -r	$@"
-	$(E)$(INSTALL) -d lib
-	$(E)ld -r -o $@ $(LIBKOBJS)
-
 # rule for building the _multithreaded_ pvfs2 library
 lib/libpvfs2-threaded.a: $(LIBTHREADEDOBJS)
 	$(Q) "  RANLIBTHREADED	$@"
@@ -681,10 +665,6 @@ $(VISS): %: %.o $(VISMISCOBJS) $(LIBRARIES)
 	$(Q) "  LD		$@"
 	$(E)$(LD) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $< $(VISMISCOBJS) $(LIBS) $(call modldflags,$<)
 
-$(LIBKOBJS): %-kernel.o: %.c
-	$(Q) "  CC		$@"
-	$(E)$(CC) $(KLIBCFLAGS) $(call modcflags,$<) $< -c -o $@
-
 # default rule for building executables from object files
 %: %.o $(LIBRARIES)
 	$(Q) "  LD		$@"
@@ -797,8 +777,8 @@ docsclean:
 # top rule for cleaning up tree
 clean:: 
 	$(Q) "  CLEAN"
-	$(E)rm -f $(LIBOBJS) $(LIBKOBJS) $(LIBTHREADEDOBJS) $(SERVEROBJS) $(MISCOBJS) \
-		$(LIBRARIES) $(KLIBRARIES) $(LIBRARIES_THREADED) $(DEPENDS) $(SERVER) \
+	$(E)rm -f $(LIBOBJS) $(LIBTHREADEDOBJS) $(SERVEROBJS) $(MISCOBJS) \
+		$(LIBRARIES) $(LIBRARIES_THREADED) $(DEPENDS) $(SERVER) \
 		$(ADMINOBJS) $(ADMINOBJS_SERVER) $(ADMINTOOLS)\
 		$(ADMINTOOLS_SERVER) lib/libpvfs2-server.a\
 		$(KERNAPPOBJS) $(KERNAPPS) $(KERNAPPSTHR) \
diff --git a/src/io/description/module.mk.in b/src/io/description/module.mk.in
index bfdb023..4ae03ee 100644
--- a/src/io/description/module.mk.in
+++ b/src/io/description/module.mk.in
@@ -10,14 +10,6 @@ LIBSRC += \
 	$(DIR)/dist-twod-stripe.c \
 	$(DIR)/dist-varstrip.c
 
-LIBKSRC += \
-	$(DIR)/pvfs-request.c \
-	$(DIR)/pint-request.c \
-	$(DIR)/pint-distribution.c \
-	$(DIR)/pint-dist-utils.c \
-	$(DIR)/dist-basic.c \
-	$(DIR)/dist-simple-stripe.c
-
 SERVERSRC += \
 	$(DIR)/pvfs-request.c \
 	$(DIR)/pint-request.c \
diff --git a/src/kernel/linux-2.6/Makefile.in b/src/kernel/linux-2.6/Makefile.in
index 752c47d..94bd5b9 100644
--- a/src/kernel/linux-2.6/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/kernel/linux-2.6/Makefile.in
@@ -60,7 +60,16 @@ hsrc = \
     pvfs2-proc.h \
     osd.h
 
-objs = $(csrc:.c=.o)
+desc_here := src/io/description
+desc_csrc :=  \
+    pvfs-request.c \
+    pint-request.c \
+    pint-distribution.c \
+    pint-dist-utils.c \
+    dist-basic.c \
+    dist-simple-stripe.c
+
+objs = $(csrc:.c=.o) $(desc_csrc:.c=.o)
 othergen = pvfs2.o pvfs2.ko pvfs2.mod.c pvfs2.mod.o
 othergendir = .tmp_versions  # around 2.6.6 this is generated locally
 cmds = $(patsubst %,.%.cmd,$(objs) $(othergen))
@@ -87,7 +96,7 @@ EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DPVFS2_VERSION="\"@PVFS2_VERSION@\""
 #EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DPVFS2_KERNEL_DEBUG
 
 obj-m += pvfs2.o
-pvfs2-objs := $(objs) $(relative_src_dir)/lib/libkpvfs2.a
+pvfs2-objs := $(objs)
 
 else
 
@@ -99,16 +108,22 @@ PWD	:= $(shell pwd)
 default: links
 	$(E)$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
 
-# link to real source directory if out-of-tree build
+# link to real source directory if out-of-tree build, and in-tree for
+# sources from src/io/description
 links:
 	$(E)for i in $(csrc) $(hsrc); do \
 	    if [ ! -f $$i  -a  ! -L $$i ] ; then \
 		ln -s $(relative_src_dir)/$(here)/$$i ;\
 	    fi ;\
 	done
+	$(E)for i in $(desc_csrc); do \
+	    if [ ! -f $$i  -a  ! -L $$i ] ; then \
+		ln -s $(relative_src_dir)/$(desc_here)/$$i ;\
+	    fi ;\
+	done
 
 clean:
-	$(E)for i in $(csrc) $(hsrc); do \
+	$(E)for i in $(csrc) $(hsrc) $(desc_csrc); do \
 	    if [ -L $$i ] ; then \
 		rm -f $$i ;\
 	    fi ;\