> I tried using "static int i_hello;". > Still the symbol gets exported. Can anybody please clarify ? define "exported" .... /proc/kallsyms is not the list of exported symbols. At all. So if you judge by that... you're looking in the wrong place. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/