Manual: rmmod

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	mod‐
       ules 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	ker‐
	   nel	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  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						    RMMOD(8)