The option was introduced a few years ago, yet the manual page went
without an update. Add some basic documentation.
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Fixes: 42b32d30 ("modprobe: Fix holders removal")
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/pull/353
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
require it. Your distribution kernel may not have been built to support
removal of modules at all.
+*--remove-holders*
+ This option causes *modprobe* to remove the mentioned module(s), alongside
+ other modules that depend on it/them - aka the reverse dependency list.
+
*-w* _TIMEOUT_MSEC_, *--wait* _TIMEOUT_MSEC_
This option causes *modprobe -r *to continue trying to remove a module
if it fails due to the module being busy, i.e. its refcount is not 0 at