modprobe - Add or remove kernel modules

Author:David Stygstra, Julien Dauphant, Matt Jeffery

Synopsis

New in version 1.4.

Add or remove kernel modules.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name yes
    Name of kernel module to manage.
    params no
      Modules parameters. (added in Ansible 1.6)
      state no present
      • present
      • absent
      Whether the module should be present or absent.

      Examples


      # Add the 802.1q module
      - modprobe: name=8021q state=present
      # Add the dummy module
      - modprobe: name=dummy state=present params="numdummies=2"
      

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