Manual: insmod

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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 mod‐
       probe(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 ver‐
	   magic fields when loading. With this option, you can load modules build locally or by third	par‐
	   ties, although this can lead to memory 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 specific parts of the project.

       Lucas De Marchi  is the current maintainer of the project.

kmod						 2026-02-02					   INSMOD(8)