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1 | .\" Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 2 | .\" This file is distributed according to the GNU General Public License. | |
| 3 | .\" See the file COPYING in the top level source directory for details. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 5 | .\" 2006-02-09, some reformatting by Luc Van Oostenryck; some | |
| 6 | .\" reformatting and rewordings by mtk | |
| 7 | .\" | |
| 8 | .TH DELETE_MODULE 2 "2002" Linux "Linux Module Support" | |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | delete_module \- delete a loadable module entry | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .nf | |
| 13 | .B #include <linux/module.h> | |
| 14 | .sp | |
| 15 | .BI "int delete_module(const char *" name ); | |
| 16 | .fi | |
| 17 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 18 | .BR delete_module () | |
| 19 | attempts to remove an unused loadable module entry. | |
| 20 | If | |
| 21 | .I name | |
| 22 | is NULL, | |
| 23 | all unused modules marked auto-clean will be removed. | |
| 24 | This system call requires privilege. | |
| 25 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" | |
| 26 | On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned and | |
| 27 | .I errno | |
| 28 | is set appropriately. | |
| 29 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 30 | .TP | |
| 31 | .B EBUSY | |
| 32 | The module is in use. | |
| 33 | .TP | |
| 34 | .B EFAULT | |
| 35 | .I name | |
| 36 | is outside the program's accessible address space. | |
| 37 | .TP | |
| 38 | .B EINVAL | |
| 39 | .I name | |
| 40 | was an empty string. | |
| 41 | .TP | |
| 42 | .B ENOENT | |
| 43 | No module by that name exists. | |
| 44 | .TP | |
| 45 | .B EPERM | |
| 46 | The caller was not privileged | |
| 47 | (did not have the | |
| 48 | .B CAP_SYS_MODULE | |
| 49 | capability). | |
| 50 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
| 51 | .BR delete_module () | |
| 52 | is Linux specific. | |
| 53 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 54 | .BR create_module (2), | |
| 55 | .BR init_module (2), | |
| 56 | .BR query_module (2) |