Manual: insmod

INSMOD(8)						   insmod						   INSMOD(8)

NAME
       insmod - Simple program to insert a module into the Linux Kernel

SYNOPSIS
       insmod [OPTIONS] [filename] [module options]

DESCRIPTION
       insmod  is  a  trivial  program	to insert a module into the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe(8) instead,
       which is more clever and can handle module dependencies.

       Only the most general of error messages are reported: as the work of trying to link the module is now done inside the
       kernel, the dmesg(1) usually gives more information about errors.

OPTIONS
       -f, --force
	   This option can be extremely dangerous: it tells the kernel to ignore the module version and vermagic fields when
	   loading. With this option, you can load modules build locally or by third parties, although this can lead to mem‐
	   ory corruption, system crashes and data loss.

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

       -v, --verbose
	   Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually insmod 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), rmmod(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  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 spe‐
       cific parts of the project.

       Lucas De Marchi  is the current maintainer of the project.

kmod							 2026-02-02						   INSMOD(8)