diff --git a/mirrord/kube/src/api/kubernetes.rs b/mirrord/kube/src/api/kubernetes.rs
index 402e9cde53c..807571d22f9 100644
--- a/mirrord/kube/src/api/kubernetes.rs
+++ b/mirrord/kube/src/api/kubernetes.rs
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ impl KubernetesAPI {
     }
 }
 
-/// Trait for IO streams returned from [`KubernetesAPI::create_connection`].
+/// Trait for IO streams returned from [`KubernetesAPI::create_connection_with_portforward`].
 /// It's here only to group the exisiting traits we actually need and return a `Box<dyn ...>`
 #[cfg(feature = "portforwarder")]
 pub trait UnpinStream:
diff --git a/mirrord/operator/Cargo.toml b/mirrord/operator/Cargo.toml
index 124e21ba818..731b67b8782 100644
--- a/mirrord/operator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/mirrord/operator/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ client = [
   "dep:mirrord-progress",
   "dep:mirrord-protocol",
   "dep:rand",
+  "dep:tokio",
   "dep:tokio-tungstenite",
   "dep:tracing",
 ]
@@ -40,7 +41,6 @@ crd = [
   "dep:k8s-openapi",
   "dep:kube",
   "dep:mirrord-config",
-  "dep:tokio",
   "dep:serde_json"
 ]
 setup = ["crd", "dep:serde_yaml"]
diff --git a/mirrord/protocol/Cargo.toml b/mirrord/protocol/Cargo.toml
index c24af340c79..3bb306ad336 100644
--- a/mirrord/protocol/Cargo.toml
+++ b/mirrord/protocol/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["client"] }
 http-serde = "2"
 http-body-util = { workspace = true }
 fancy-regex = { workspace = true }
-libc.workspace = true
 socket2.workspace = true
 semver = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 tokio-stream.workspace = true
@@ -37,4 +36,5 @@ tokio.workspace = true
 mirrord-macros = { path = "../macros" }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
+libc.workspace = true
 nix = { workspace = true, features = ["fs"] }