rmmod - Man Page

• Remove a module from the kernel: sudo rmmod module_name
• Remove a module from the kernel and display verbose information: sudo rmmod --verbose module_name
• Remove a module from the kernel and send errors to syslog instead of stderr: sudo rmmod --syslog module_name
• Display help: rmmod --help
• Display version: rmmod --version

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rmmod [-f] [-s] [-v] [modulename]

rmmod is a trivial program to remove a module (when module unloading support is provided) from the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe(8) with the -r option instead since it removes unused dependent modules as well.

-v --verbose

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

-f --force

This option can be extremely dangerous: it has no effect unless CONFIG_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 --version

Show version of program and exit.

This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

modprobe(8), insmod(8), lsmod(8), modinfo(8), depmod(8)

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.

delete_module(2), insmod(8), kmod(8), modprobe(8).