rmmod

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 standard error

$ sudo rmmod --syslog [module_name]

Display help

$ rmmod --help

Display version

$ rmmod --version

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.

-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. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.

Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>

Developer

Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>

Developer

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