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
       unused 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 error 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 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, --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 Corporation.

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.

kmod                                               2025-06-11                                           RMMOD(8)