rmmod(8) [debian man page]

RMMOD(8)							       rmmod								  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 (when module unloading support is provided) from the kernel. Most users will want to use
       modprobe(8) with the -r option instead.

OPTIONS

       -v --verbose
	   Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually rmmod prints messages only 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. Nothing 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 syslog instead of standard error.

       -V --version
	   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

       modprobe(8), insmod(8), lsmod(8) modinfo(8)

AUTHORS

       Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
	   Developer

       Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
	   Developer

kmod								    06/19/2012								  RMMOD(8)

MODINFO(8)							      modinfo								MODINFO(8)

NAME

       modinfo - Show information about a Linux Kernel module

SYNOPSIS

       modinfo [-0] [-F field] [-k kernel] [modulename|filename...]

       modinfo -V

       modinfo -h

DESCRIPTION

       modinfo extracts information from the Linux Kernel modules given on the command line. If the module name is not a filename, then the
       /lib/modules/version directory is searched, as is also done by modprobe(8) when loading kernel modules.

       modinfo by default lists each attribute of the module in form fieldname : value, for easy reading. The filename is listed the same way
       (although it's not really an attribute).

       This version of modinfo can understand modules of any Linux Kernel architecture.

OPTIONS

       -V --version
	   Print the modinfo version.

       -F --field
	   Only print this field value, one per line. This is most useful for scripts. Field names are case-insensitive. Common fields (which may
	   not be in every module) include author, description, license, parm, depends, and alias. There are often multiple parm, alias and
	   depends fields. The special field filename lists the filename of the module.

       -k kernel
	   Provide information about a kernel other than the running one. This is particularly useful for distributions needing to extract
	   information from a newly installed (but not yet running) set of kernel modules. For example, you wish to find which firmware files are
	   needed by various modules in a new kernel for which you must make an initrd/initramfs image prior to booting.

       -0 --null
	   Use the ASCII zero character to separate field values, instead of a new line. This is useful for scripts, since a new line can
	   theoretically appear inside a field.

       -a -d -l -p -n
	   These are shortcuts for author, description, license.  parm and filename respectively, to ease the transition from the old modutils
	   modinfo.

COPYRIGHT

       This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.

SEE ALSO

       modprobe(8)

AUTHORS

       Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
	   Developer

       Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
	   Developer

kmod								    06/19/2012								MODINFO(8)