diff --git a/common/board_r.c b/common/board_r.c
index 00ba319ca77ba16434a71a29b57febb01acedf4d..bd77d646a1325b959ce8791174b12f40c00c22cd 100644
--- a/common/board_r.c
+++ b/common/board_r.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <common.h>
+#include <api.h>
 /* TODO: can we just include all these headers whether needed or not? */
 #if defined(CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG)
 #include <bedbug/type.h>
diff --git a/include/api.h b/include/api.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85817f34003503d03d3fa6e1d88fefe0dbed86db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/api.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Google, Inc
+ * Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:     GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+#ifndef __API_H
+#define __API_H
+
+void api_init(void);
+
+#endif
diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index 8b64407fd178ddc8d84a88253718117ca8c4468b..fb4e79bb3974b204428021fe9158acd9d35044cf 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -465,9 +465,6 @@ void	jumptable_init(void);
 /* common/kallsysm.c */
 const char *symbol_lookup(unsigned long addr, unsigned long *caddr);
 
-/* api/api.c */
-void	api_init (void);
-
 /* common/memsize.c */
 long	get_ram_size  (long *, long);
 phys_size_t get_effective_memsize(void);