diff --git a/extras/multipath/ChangeLog b/extras/multipath/ChangeLog
index bb2f6baf89..c3361ff8e8 100644
--- a/extras/multipath/ChangeLog
+++ b/extras/multipath/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-02-04 multipath-016
+	* remove make_dm_node fn & call. Rely on udev for this.
+	* don't rely on the linux symlink in the udev/klibc dir since
+	  udev build doesn't use it anymore. This corrects build breakage
 2004-01-19 multipath-013
 	* update the DM target synthax to the 2.6.0-udm5 style
 2003-12-29 multipath-012
diff --git a/extras/multipath/Makefile b/extras/multipath/Makefile
index 0aac146a87..caf24bbd90 100644
--- a/extras/multipath/Makefile
+++ b/extras/multipath/Makefile
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ sysfsdir    = $(udevdir)/libsysfs
 
 CC = gcc
 GCCINCDIR := ${shell $(CC) -print-search-dirs | sed -ne "s/install: \(.*\)/\1include/gp"}
+KERNEL_DIR = /lib/modules/${shell uname -r}/build
 CFLAGS = -pipe -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -Wstrict-prototypes -nostdinc \
          -I$(klibcdir)/klibc/include -I$(klibcdir)/klibc/include/bits32 \
          -I$(GCCINCDIR) -I$(KERNEL_DIR)/include -I$(sysfsdir) -I.
diff --git a/extras/multipath/main.c b/extras/multipath/main.c
index e18e049128..d4dd89a305 100644
--- a/extras/multipath/main.c
+++ b/extras/multipath/main.c
@@ -558,46 +558,6 @@ coalesce_paths(struct env * conf, struct multipath * mp,
 	return nmp;
 }
 
-static int
-make_dm_node(char * str)
-{
-	int r = 0;
-	char buff[FILE_NAME_SIZE];
-	struct dm_names * names;
-        unsigned next = 0;
-	struct dm_task *dmt;
-
-	if (!(dmt = dm_task_create(DM_DEVICE_LIST)))
-		return 0;
-
-	if (!dm_task_run(dmt))
-		goto out;
-
-	if (!(names = dm_task_get_names(dmt)))
-		goto out;
-
-	if (!names->dev) {
-		r = 1;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-        do {
-		if (0 == strcmp(names->name, str))
-			break;
-                next = names->next;
-                names = (void *) names + next;
-        } while (next);
-
-	sprintf(buff, "/dev/mapper/%s", str);
-	unlink(buff);
-	mknod(buff, 0600 | S_IFBLK, names->dev);
-
-	out:
-	dm_task_destroy(dmt);
-	return r;
-
-}
-
 static int
 dm_simplecmd(int task, const char *name) {
 	int r = 0;
@@ -711,7 +671,6 @@ setup_map(struct env * conf, struct path * all_paths,
 	if (op == DM_DEVICE_RELOAD)
 		dm_simplecmd(DM_DEVICE_RESUME, mp[index].wwid);
 
-	make_dm_node(mp[index].wwid);
 	return 1;
 }