diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild
index 683513e..bb881c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/Kbuild
+++ b/include/linux/Kbuild
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@
 header-y += videotext.h
 header-y += vt.h
 header-y += wireless.h
-header-y += xattr.h
 header-y += x25.h
 
 unifdef-y += acct.h
@@ -336,6 +335,7 @@
 unifdef-y += wanrouter.h
 unifdef-y += watchdog.h
 unifdef-y += wireless.h
+unifdef-y += xattr.h
 unifdef-y += xfrm.h
 
 objhdr-y += version.h
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index 0e7f1e2..def131a 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
 #define XATTR_CREATE	0x1	/* set value, fail if attr already exists */
 #define XATTR_REPLACE	0x2	/* set value, fail if attr does not exist */
 
+#ifdef  __KERNEL__
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
 /* Namespaces */
 #define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX "os2."
 #define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_OS2_PREFIX) - 1)
@@ -29,6 +33,8 @@
 #define XATTR_USER_PREFIX "user."
 #define XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_USER_PREFIX) - 1)
 
+struct inode;
+struct dentry;
 
 struct xattr_handler {
 	char *prefix;
@@ -50,4 +56,6 @@
 int generic_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
 int generic_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name);
 
+#endif  /*  __KERNEL__  */
+
 #endif	/* _LINUX_XATTR_H */