diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_connector.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_connector.py
index 7232d94703..a5240adab4 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_connector.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_connector.py
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.base import (
     KVConnectorMetadata,
     KVConnectorRole,
 )
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.lmcache_integration import (
+    vllm_v1_adapter as _adapter,
+)
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
 
@@ -34,11 +37,6 @@ class LMCacheConnectorV1(KVConnectorBase_V1):
         )
         if use_native:
             logger.info("Initializing native LMCache connector")
-            # lazy import
-            from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1 import lmcache_integration
-
-            _adapter = lmcache_integration.vllm_v1_adapter
-
             cls = _adapter.LMCacheConnectorV1Impl
         else:
             logger.info("Initializing latest dev LMCache connector")
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/__init__.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/__init__.py
index 3c73a1c09e..208f01a7cb 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,2 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
-
-
-from . import vllm_v1_adapter
-
-__all__ = ["vllm_v1_adapter"]
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/utils.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/utils.py
index 0e87dea59d..e0282c1552 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_integration/utils.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def create_lmcache_metadata(
     # First Party
     from lmcache.config import LMCacheEngineMetadata
 
-    from vllm.utils.torch_utils import get_kv_cache_torch_dtype
+    from vllm.utils import get_kv_cache_torch_dtype
 
     config = lmcache_get_or_create_config()
     # Support both vllm_config object and individual config parameters