diff --git a/devel/Makefile.am b/devel/Makefile.am
index 75b8850416..347e1c9d18 100644
--- a/devel/Makefile.am
+++ b/devel/Makefile.am
@@ -1,75 +1,75 @@
 #
 # Copyright 2020-2021 the Pacemaker project contributors
 #
 # The version control history for this file may have further details.
 #
 # This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
 # or later (GPLv2+) WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
 #
 
 # Coccinelle is a tool that takes special patch-like files (called semantic patches) and
 # applies them throughout a source tree.  This is useful when refactoring, changing APIs,
 # catching dangerous or incorrect code, and other similar tasks.  It's not especially
 # easy to write a semantic patch but most users should only be concerned about running
 # the target and inspecting the results.
 #
 # Documentation (including examples, which are the most useful):
 #     https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website/docs/
 #
 # Run the "make cocci" target to just output what would be done, or "make cocci-inplace"
 # to apply the changes to the source tree.
 #
 # COCCI_FILES may be set on the command line, if you want to test just a single file
 # while it's under development.  Otherwise, it is a list of all the files that are ready
 # to be run.
 #
 # ref-passed-variables-inited.cocci seems to be returning some false positives around
 # GHashTableIters, so it is disabled for the moment.
 COCCI_FILES ?=	coccinelle/string-any-of.cocci			\
 		coccinelle/string-empty.cocci			\
 		coccinelle/string-null-matches.cocci		\
 		coccinelle/use-func.cocci
 
 
 dist_noinst_SCRIPTS	= coccinelle/test/testrunner.sh
 EXTRA_DIST		= README gdbhelpers $(COCCI_FILES)		\
 			  coccinelle/ref-passed-variables-inited.cocci	\
 			  coccinelle/rename-fn.cocci			\
 			  coccinelle/test/ref-passed-variables-inited.input.c \
 			  coccinelle/test/ref-passed-variables-inited.output
 
 # Any file in this list is allowed to use any of the pcmk__ internal functions.
 # Coccinelle can use any transformation that depends on "internal" to rewrite
 # code to use the internal functions.
-MAY_USE_INTERNAL_FILES = $(shell find .. -path "../lib/*.c" -o -path "../tools/*.c" -o -path "../daemons/*.c" -o -path '../include/pcmki/*h' -o -name '*internal.h')
+MAY_USE_INTERNAL_FILES = $(shell find .. -path "../lib/*.c" -o -path "../lib/*private.h" -o -path "../tools/*.c" -o -path "../daemons/*.c" -o -path '../include/pcmki/*h' -o -name '*internal.h')
 
 # And then any file in this list is public API, which may not use internal
 # functions.  Thus, only those transformations that do not depend on "internal"
 # may be applied.
 OTHER_FILES = $(shell find ../include -name '*h' -a \! -name '*internal.h' -a \! -path '../include/pcmki/*')
 
 cocci:
 	-for cf in $(COCCI_FILES); do \
 		for f in $(MAY_USE_INTERNAL_FILES); do \
 			spatch $(_SPATCH_FLAGS) -D internal --very-quiet --local-includes --preprocess --sp-file $$cf $$f; \
 		done ; \
 		for f in $(OTHER_FILES); do \
 			spatch $(_SPATCH_FLAGS) --very-quiet --local-includes --preprocess --sp-file $$cf $$f; \
 		done ; \
 	done
 
 cocci-inplace:
 	$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) _SPATCH_FLAGS=--in-place cocci
 
 cocci-test:
 	for f in coccinelle/test/*.c; do \
 		coccinelle/test/testrunner.sh $$f; \
 	done
 
 # Scratch file for ad-hoc testing
 EXTRA_PROGRAMS		= scratch
 nodist_scratch_SOURCES	= scratch.c
 scratch_LDADD		= $(top_builddir)/lib/common/libcrmcommon.la
 
 clean-local:
 	-rm -f $(EXTRA_PROGRAMS)