lsmod - Man Page

Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

lsmod [Options]

Description

lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of the /proc/modules, showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

Options

-s,  --syslog

Send errors to syslog instead of standard error.

-v,  --verbose

Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually lsmod prints messages only if something goes wrong.

-V,  --version

Show version of program and exit.

-h,  --help

Print the help message and exit.

See Also

insmod(8), modprobe(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.

Referenced By

delete_module(2), init_module(2), insmod(8), kmod(8), modprobe(8), proc(5), proc_modules(5), query_module(2), rmmod(8).

2025-02-24 kmod