2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace-cmd-record.1.txt b/Documentation/trace-cmd-record.1.txt
index 9a51f91..a8c9b98 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace-cmd-record.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace-cmd-record.1.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ OPTIONS
     Note: usually trace-cmd will set the "tracing_on" file back to what it
     was before it was called. This option will leave that file set to zero.
 
+*-i*::
+    By default, if an event is listed that trace-cmd does not find, it
+    will exit with an error. This option will just ignore events that are
+    listed on the command line but are not found on the system.
+
 *-N* 'host:port'::
     If another machine is running "trace-cmd listen", this option is used to
     have the data sent to that machine with UDP packets. Instead of writing
diff --git a/trace-usage.c b/trace-usage.c
index 2d7b668..8f70f29 100644
--- a/trace-usage.c
+++ b/trace-usage.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static struct usage_help usage_help[] = {
                 "          -t used with -N, forces use of tcp in live trace\n"
                 "          -b change kernel buffersize (in kilobytes per CPU)\n"
                 "          -k do not reset the buffers after tracing.\n"
+                "          -i do not fail if an event is not found\n"
         },
         {
                 "start",