diff --git a/lustre/include/linux/obd_support.h b/lustre/include/linux/obd_support.h
index 652e3727d860081eff1b0954a77c8f4d1862f988..0d519253f4b8386874e5067904598e370decce63 100644
--- a/lustre/include/linux/obd_support.h
+++ b/lustre/include/linux/obd_support.h
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 
 /* global variables */
 extern int obd_debug_level;
-extern int obd_print_entry;
 extern unsigned long obd_memory;
 
 #define OBD_ALLOC(ptr, size)                                    \
diff --git a/lustre/llite/rw.c b/lustre/llite/rw.c
index 71e78e3f1ba1f545d1ed3024bcfbc6b5895eefa3..aa1d9e338a42db8a9b9d0ef767af32d83ec69c74 100644
--- a/lustre/llite/rw.c
+++ b/lustre/llite/rw.c
@@ -281,9 +281,10 @@ static int ll_writepage(struct page *page)
 	return err;
 }
 
-/* SYNCHRONOUS I/O to object storage for an inode -- object attr will be updated too */
-static int ll_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page, 
-		    unsigned from, unsigned to)
+/* SYNCHRONOUS I/O to object storage for an inode -- object attr will be updated
+ * too */
+static int ll_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+                           unsigned from, unsigned to)
 {
 	int create = 1;
 	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
@@ -321,16 +322,14 @@ static int ll_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
 		err = ll_inode_setattr(inode, &iattr, 0);
 		if (err) {
 			CERROR("failed - %d.\n", err);
-			obdo_free(oa);
-			EXIT;
-			return -EIO;
+                        err = -EIO;
 		}
 	}
 
         obdo_free(oa);
         EXIT;
         return err;
-} /* ll_brw */
+} /* ll_commit_write */
 
 void ll_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 {
diff --git a/lustre/mdc/mdc_reint.c b/lustre/mdc/mdc_reint.c
index 9249d890646b4a22a71b21342c9f45e1816d47c0..181b8fa14c08aaac06a3581034d83c8ea1374342 100644
--- a/lustre/mdc/mdc_reint.c
+++ b/lustre/mdc/mdc_reint.c
@@ -25,32 +25,22 @@
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/string.h>
-#include <linux/stat.h>
-#include <linux/errno.h>
-#include <linux/locks.h>
-#include <linux/unistd.h>
-
-#include <asm/system.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/stat.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
-#include <asm/segment.h>
-#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
 
 #define DEBUG_SUBSYSTEM S_MDC
 
-#include <linux/obd_support.h>
 #include <linux/obd_class.h>
-#include <linux/lustre_lib.h>
-#include <linux/lustre_idl.h>
 #include <linux/lustre_mds.h>
 
-extern int mdc_reint(struct ptlrpc_client *peer, struct ptlrpc_request *request);
+static int mdc_reint(struct ptlrpc_client *cl, struct ptlrpc_request *request)
+{
+	int rc; 
+
+	rc = ptlrpc_queue_wait(cl, request);
+        if (rc)
+		CERROR("error in handling %d\n", rc); 
+
+	return rc;
+}
 
 int mdc_setattr(struct ptlrpc_client *peer, 
 		struct inode *inode, struct iattr *iattr,
@@ -60,9 +50,11 @@ int mdc_setattr(struct ptlrpc_client *peer,
 	struct mds_rec_setattr *rec;
         ENTRY;
 
-	*request = ptlrpc_prep_req(peer, MDS_REINT, 0, NULL, sizeof(*rec), NULL);
+        *request = ptlrpc_prep_req(peer, MDS_REINT, 0, NULL,
+                                   sizeof(*rec), NULL);
 	if (!(*request)) { 
-		CERROR("mdc request: cannot pack\n");
+		CERROR("cannot pack\n");
+                EXIT;
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -92,7 +84,7 @@ int mdc_create(struct ptlrpc_client *peer,
 			       sizeof(*rec) + size_round0(namelen) + 
 			       size_round0(tgtlen), NULL);
 	if (!(*request)) { 
-		CERROR("mdc_create: cannot pack\n");
+		CERROR("cannot pack\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -119,7 +111,7 @@ int mdc_unlink(struct ptlrpc_client *peer,
 	(*request) = ptlrpc_prep_req(peer, MDS_REINT, 0, NULL, 
 			       sizeof(*rec) + size_round0(namelen), NULL);
 	if (!(*request)) { 
-		CERROR("mdc_unlink: cannot pack\n");
+		CERROR("cannot pack\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -146,7 +138,7 @@ int mdc_link(struct ptlrpc_client *peer, struct dentry *src,
 	(*request) = ptlrpc_prep_req(peer, MDS_REINT, 0, NULL, 
 			       sizeof(*rec) + size_round0(namelen), NULL);
 	if (!(*request)) { 
-		CERROR("mdc_link: cannot pack\n");
+		CERROR("cannot pack\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -174,7 +166,7 @@ int mdc_rename(struct ptlrpc_client *peer, struct inode *src,
 			       sizeof(*rec) + size_round0(oldlen)
 			       + size_round0(newlen), NULL);
 	if (!(*request)) { 
-		CERROR("mdc_link: cannot pack\n");
+		CERROR("cannot pack\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
diff --git a/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c b/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c
index 534ee5a02b917086301880f86ba3d2355d2c77c9..67ef83fc81db0b5ddb7411bb7d553b4d8bc03427 100644
--- a/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c
+++ b/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c
@@ -210,18 +210,6 @@ int mdc_readpage(struct ptlrpc_client *cl, ino_t ino, int type, __u64 offset,
 	return rc;
 }
 
-int mdc_reint(struct ptlrpc_client *cl, struct ptlrpc_request *request)
-{
-	int rc; 
-
-	rc = ptlrpc_queue_wait(cl, request);
-	if (rc) { 
-		CERROR("mdc request: error in handling %d\n", rc); 
-	}
-
-	return rc;
-}
-
 static int request_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, 
                          unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
diff --git a/lustre/obdclass/sysctl.c b/lustre/obdclass/sysctl.c
index 1777298b23f7cd0728179a3ede5a2ba57f9f1aa7..48e1a017b4a2145a96192390f057cde2289b972c 100644
--- a/lustre/obdclass/sysctl.c
+++ b/lustre/obdclass/sysctl.c
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-/*
+/* -*- mode: c; c-basic-offset: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-
+ * vim:expandtab:shiftwidth=8:tabstop=8:
+ *
  * Copyright (C) 2001  Cluster File Systems, Inc.
  *
  * This code is issued under the GNU General Public License.
@@ -49,7 +51,6 @@ static int obd_sctl_reset( ctl_table * table, int write, struct file
 
 static ctl_table obd_table[] = {
         {OBD_DEBUG, "debug", &obd_debug_level, sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
-        {OBD_ENTRY, "trace", &obd_print_entry, sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
         {OBD_VARS, "vars", &vars[0], sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
         {OBD_INDEX, "index", &index, sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &obd_sctl_vars},
         {OBD_RESET, "reset", NULL, 0, 0644, NULL, &obd_sctl_reset},
@@ -112,7 +113,3 @@ int obd_sctl_vars (ctl_table * table, int write,
 
         return rc; 
 }
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/lustre/tests/llmount.sh b/lustre/tests/llmount.sh
index 9d2adef4d0b2c6281f1a157168f1972d874d402e..ed089fb8fcbe27e501d382cdf5848d8c6c6fc2c0 100755
--- a/lustre/tests/llmount.sh
+++ b/lustre/tests/llmount.sh
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ EOF
 
 new_fs ext2 /tmp/ost 10000
 OST=$LOOPDEV
-
 MDSFS=ext2
 new_fs ${MDSFS} /tmp/mds 10000
 MDS=$LOOPDEV
 
-echo 8291 > /proc/sys/obd/debug
+mknod /dev/obd c 10 241
+echo 0xffffffff > /proc/sys/portals/debug
 
 $R/usr/src/obd/utils/obdctl <<EOF
 device 0