kmod(8)

kmod8

Program to manage linux kernel modules

Usage

kmod [OPTIONS ...] [COMMAND] [COMMAND_OPTIONS ...]

Overview

kmod is a multi-call binary which implements the programs used to control Linux Kernel modules. Most users will only run it using its other names.

Options

-V, --version

Show the program version and exit.

-h, --help

Show the help message.

Commands

help

Show the help message.

list

List the currently loaded modules.

static-nodes

Output the static device nodes information provided by the modules of the currently running kernel version.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

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.

Author

kmod project was started by Lucas De Marchi as a drop-in replacement to module-init-tools that was maintained by Jon Masters, adding a library (libkmod) and additional features.

Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> is the current maintainer of the project.

From kmod 34.3-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.