lsmod(8) — Linux manual page

LSMOD(8)                          lsmod                          LSMOD(8)

NAME         top

       lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

SYNOPSIS         top

       lsmod [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of
       the /proc/modules, showing what kernel modules are currently
       loaded.

OPTIONS         top

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

       -v, --verbose
           Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually lsmod
           prints messages only if something goes wrong.

       -V, --version
           Show version of program and exit.

       -h, --help
           Print the help message and exit.

COPYRIGHT         top

       This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM
       Corporation.

SEE ALSO         top

       insmod(8), modprobe(8), modinfo(8), depmod(8)

BUGS         top

       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         top

       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.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the kmod (userspace tools for managing kernel
       modules) project.  Information about the project can be found at
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       linux-modules@vger.kernel.org.  This page was obtained from the
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       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git⟩ on
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kmod                            2025-02-02                       LSMOD(8)

Pages that refer to this page: delete_module(2),  init_module(2),  query_module(2),  proc(5),  proc_modules(5),  insmod(8),  kmod(8),  modprobe(8),  rmmod(8)

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