Man Rmmod en anglais
rmmod(8)                                                              rmmod(8)



 

NAME


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

 

SYNOPSIS


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

 

DESCRIPTION






       rmmod  is  a  trivial program to remove a module from the kernel.  Most
       users will want to use modprobe(8) instead, with the -r option.


 

OPTIONS


       -v --verbose
                 Print messages about what  the  program  is  doing.   Usually
                 rmmod only prints messages 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)).


       -w --wait Normally,  rmmod  will  refuse to unload modules which are in
                 use.  With this option, rmmod will isolate  the  module,  and
                 wait  until  the module is no longer used.  Noone new will be
                 able to use the module, but it's up to you to make  sure  the
                 current  users  eventually finish with it.  See lsmod(8)) for
                 information on usage counts.


       -s --syslog
                 Send errors to the syslog, instead of standard error.


       -V --version
                 Show version of program, and exit.   See  below  for  caveats
                 when run on older kernels.


 

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY


       This version of rmmod is for kernels 2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a
       kernel with support for old-style modules (for which much of  the  work
       was  done in userspace), it will attempt to run rmmod.old in its place,
       so it is completely transparent to the user.


 

COPYRIGHT


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


 

SEE ALSO


       modprobe(8), insmod(8), lsmod(8), rmmod.old(8)



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