insmod
(8)Simple program to insert a module into the Linux Kernel
Options
5-f--forceThis option can be extremely dangerous: it tells the kernel to ignore the module version and vermagic fields when loading. With this option, you can load modules build locally or by third parties, although this can lead to memory corruption, system crashes and data loss.
-s--syslogSend errors to syslog instead of standard error.
-v--verbosePrint messages about what the program is doing. Usually insmod prints messages only if something goes wrong.
-V--versionShow version of program and exit.
-h--helpPrint the help message and exit.
DESCRIPTION
insmod is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe(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.
COPYRIGHT
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 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.