diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/init/main.c work/init/main.c
--- linux/init/main.c	Thu Jul 27 07:31:21 2000
+++ work/init/main.c	Thu Jul 27 21:04:35 2000
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@
 	fork_init(mempages);
 	filescache_init();
 	dcache_init(mempages);
+	namecache_init();
 	vma_init();
 	buffer_init(mempages);
 	page_cache_init(mempages);
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/include/linux/fs.h work/include/linux/fs.h
--- linux/include/linux/fs.h	Thu Jul 27 07:31:21 2000
+++ work/include/linux/fs.h	Thu Jul 27 21:04:06 2000
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
 extern void inode_init(unsigned long);
 extern void file_table_init(void);
 extern void dcache_init(unsigned long);
+extern void namecache_init(void);
 
 /* bh state bits */
 #define BH_Uptodate	0	/* 1 if the buffer contains valid data */
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/fs/namei.c work/fs/namei.c
--- linux/fs/namei.c	Thu Jul 27 07:31:19 2000
+++ work/fs/namei.c	Thu Jul 27 21:04:29 2000
@@ -1958,7 +1958,7 @@
 /* SLAB cache for name blocks */
 kmem_cache_t *names_cachep;
 
-static int __init namecache_init(void)
+int __init namecache_init(void)
 {
 	names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache",
 			PAGE_SIZE,
@@ -1969,5 +1969,3 @@
 		panic("Cannot create names cache");
 	return 0;
 }
-
-module_init(namecache_init)