.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" This program is distributed according to the Gnu General Public License.
.\" See the file COPYING in the kernel source directory
.\" $Id: rmmod.1,v 1.1 1997/09/10 22:18:33 rth Exp $
.\"
.TH RMMOD 1 "26 Dec 1996" Linux "Linux Module Support"
.SH NAME
rmmod \- unload loadable modules
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rmmod
[ \-as ] module ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Rmmod
unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.
.PP
.B Rmmod
tries to unload a set of modules from the kernel, with the restriction
that they are not in use and that they are not referred to by other modules.
.PP
If more than one module is named on the command line, the modules
will be removed simultansously.  This supports unloading of stacked modules.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
.I \-a
Remove all unused modules.
.TP
.I \-s
Output everything to \fBsyslog\fP(3) instead of the terminal.
.SH SEE ALSO
insmod(1), lsmod(1), ksyms(1), modules(2)
.SH HISTORY
Module support was first concieved by Anonymous
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Initial Linux version by Bas Laarhoven <bas@vimec.nl>
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Version 0.99.14 by Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es>
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Extended by Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se>
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Updated for 2.1.17 by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>