NAME


delete_module - delete a loadable module entry

SYNOPSIS


#include <linux/module.h>

int delete_module(const char *name);

DESCRIPTION


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.

RETURN VALUE


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

ERRORS


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).

CONFORMING TO


delete_module() is Linux-specific.

SEE ALSO


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

COLOPHON


This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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