diff --git a/userspace/include/unit/core.h b/userspace/include/unit/core.h
index d9d119dbd..b47b64559 100644
--- a/userspace/include/unit/core.h
+++ b/userspace/include/unit/core.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -59,5 +59,5 @@ struct unit_fw {
 
 int core_load_nvgpu(struct unit_fw *fw);
 int core_exec(struct unit_fw *fw);
-
+int verbose_lvl(struct unit_module *module);
 #endif
diff --git a/userspace/libnvgpu-unit.export b/userspace/libnvgpu-unit.export
index 4238b30ca..3344963d4 100644
--- a/userspace/libnvgpu-unit.export
+++ b/userspace/libnvgpu-unit.export
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2018-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
 
 __core_print_stdout
 __core_print_stderr
 __unit_info_color
+verbose_lvl
diff --git a/userspace/src/module.c b/userspace/src/module.c
index d88b392cd..110df949d 100644
--- a/userspace/src/module.c
+++ b/userspace/src/module.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -213,3 +213,9 @@ err:
 	closedir(load_dir);
 	return NULL;
 }
+
+/* Return the current verbosity level */
+int verbose_lvl(struct unit_module *module)
+{
+	return module->fw->args->verbose_lvl;
+}