lsmod(8)

lsmod8

Show the status of modules in the linux kernel

Usage

lsmod [OPTIONS]

Overview

lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of the /proc/modules, showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

Options

-s, --syslog

Send errors to syslog instead of standard error.

-v, --verbose

Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually lsmod prints messages only if something goes wrong.

-V, --version

Show version of program and exit.

-h, --help

Print the help message and exit.

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1–4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 13
  13. Arch

--help since Debian 13 (Trixie); --syslog since Debian 13 (Trixie); --verbose since Debian 13 (Trixie); --version since Debian 13 (Trixie); -V since Debian 13 (Trixie); -h since Debian 13 (Trixie); -s since Debian 13 (Trixie); -v since Debian 13 (Trixie).

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 <[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.