From: Tomohiro Kusumi <tkusumi@xxxxxxxxxx>
ignore_error= and continue_on_error= are related in their
implementation, and easier to understand how they differ by
mentioning to it.
Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <tkusumi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
HOWTO | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index ea9466a..289c518 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -2836,7 +2836,8 @@ Error handling
.. option:: ignore_error=str
Sometimes you want to ignore some errors during test in that case you can
- specify error list for each error type.
+ specify error list for each error type, instead of only being able to
+ ignore the default 'non-fatal error' using :option:`continue_on_error`.
``ignore_error=READ_ERR_LIST,WRITE_ERR_LIST,VERIFY_ERR_LIST`` errors for
given error type is separated with ':'. Error may be symbol ('ENOSPC',
'ENOMEM') or integer. Example::
@@ -2844,7 +2845,8 @@ Error handling
ignore_error=EAGAIN,ENOSPC:122
This option will ignore EAGAIN from READ, and ENOSPC and 122(EDQUOT) from
- WRITE.
+ WRITE. This option works by overriding :option:`continue_on_error` with
+ the list of errors for each error type if any.
.. option:: error_dump=bool
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2.9.4
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