NAME

       rmmod - Simple program to remove a module from the Linux Kernel

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       -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.

COPYRIGHT

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

SEE ALSO

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

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.

kmod                                               2025-02-20                                           RMMOD(8)