RMMOD(8)			     rmmod			      RMMOD(8)

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				  2025-03-28			      RMMOD(8)