rmmod kmod Developer Jon Masters jcm@jonmasters.org Developer Lucas De Marchi lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com rmmod 8 rmmod Simple program to remove a module from the Linux Kernel rmmod 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 modprobe8 with the option instead. OPTIONS Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually rmmod prints messages only if something goes wrong. 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 lsmod8 ). Send errors to syslog instead of standard error. Show version of program and exit. COPYRIGHT This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others. SEE ALSO modprobe8 , insmod8 , lsmod8 modinfo8