hi everone, thank you very much. i got the required api for getting the symbol name. it seems that the function kallsyms_lookup_name() does the trick. so, now, i need to find a way to get the address and type too. by 'type' i mean, whether its a function, integer, char, char *, etc. i think that could be impossible. so any kind of information is very much welcomed ! jinesh. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/