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Manual Reference Pages  - DELETE_MODULE (2)

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delete_module - delete a loadable module entry

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#include <linux/module.h> 



int delete_module(const char *name); 

delete_module() attempts to remove an unused loadable module entry. If name is NULL, all unused modules marked auto-clean will be removed. This system call requires privilege.

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.

EBUSY	The module is in use.
EFAULT	name is outside the program’s accessible address space.
EINVAL	name was an empty string.
ENOENT	No module by that name exists.
EPERM	The caller was not privileged (did not have the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability).

delete_module() is Linux specific.

create_module(2), init_module(2), query_module(2)