diff --git a/man/man8/tc-flower.8 b/man/man8/tc-flower.8
index a561443b..4f3714b7 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-flower.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-flower.8
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ flower \- flow based traffic control filter
 .IR MATCH " := { "
 .B indev
 .IR ifname " | "
+.BR verbose
+.RI " | "
 .BR skip_sw " | " skip_hw
 .RI " | { "
 .BR dst_mac " | " src_mac " } "
@@ -100,6 +102,11 @@ is the name of an interface which must exist at the time of
 .B tc
 invocation.
 .TP
+.BI verbose
+Enable verbose logging, including offloading errors when not using
+.B skip_sw
+flag.
+.TP
 .BI skip_sw
 Do not process filter by software. If hardware has no offload support for this
 filter, or TC offload is not enabled for the interface, operation will fail.
diff --git a/tc/f_flower.c b/tc/f_flower.c
index ba8eb66c..c7107651 100644
--- a/tc/f_flower.c
+++ b/tc/f_flower.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ enum flower_icmp_field {
 static void explain(void)
 {
 	fprintf(stderr,
-		"Usage: ... flower [ MATCH-LIST ]\n"
+		"Usage: ... flower [ MATCH-LIST ] [ verbose ]\n"
 		"                  [ skip_sw | skip_hw ]\n"
 		"                  [ action ACTION-SPEC ] [ classid CLASSID ]\n"
 		"\n"
@@ -648,6 +648,8 @@ static int flower_parse_opt(struct filter_util *qu, char *handle,
 				fprintf(stderr, "Illegal \"ip_flags\"\n");
 				return -1;
 			}
+		} else if (matches(*argv, "verbose") == 0) {
+			flags |= TCA_CLS_FLAGS_VERBOSE;
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "skip_hw") == 0) {
 			flags |= TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_HW;
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "skip_sw") == 0) {