RMMOD(8) rmmod RMMOD(8)
NAME
rmmod - Simple program to remove a module from the Linux Kernel
SYNOPSIS
rmmod [OPTIONS] [list of modulenames]
DESCRIPTION
rmmod is a trivial program to remove a module or a list of modules from
the kernel (when module unloading support is provided). Most users will
want to use modprobe(8) with the -r option instead since it removes un-
used dependent modules as well.
When a list of modules is provided, the program will process them one at
a time. If a module is not found, rmmod will immediately exit with an
error code. Should the module removal fail, the program will log an er-
ror AND continue with the next module. This behaviour is NOT controlled
by the --force option.
OPTIONS
-f, --force
This option can be extremely dangerous: it has no effect unless CON-
FIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD was set when the kernel was compiled. With
this option, you can remove modules which are being used, or which
are not designed to be removed, or have been marked as unsafe (see
lsmod(8)).
-s, --syslog
Send errors to syslog instead of standard error.
-v, --verbose
Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually rmmod prints
messages only if something goes wrong.
-V, --version
Show version of program and exit.
-h, --help
Print the help message and exit.
COPYRIGHT
This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corpora-
tion.
SEE ALSO
modprobe(8), insmod(8), lsmod(8), modinfo(8), depmod(8)
BUGS
Please direct any bug reports to kmod's issue tracker at
https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/issues/ alongside with version
used, steps to reproduce the problem and the expected outcome.
AUTHORS
Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list
<linux-modules@vger.kernel.org> and Github. If you have a clone of
kmod.git itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1) can show
you the authors for specific parts of the project.
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer of
the project.
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