If you even define KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in Makefile it will not be expanded into command line argument for modpost. Patch in a Note: this bug was reported and kernel bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11567 and patch was included in -mm tree. The patch was generated against 2.6.26 kernel but I suppose it should work applies to the linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git too. -- Peter.