On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:03:43 +0000 Ben Hutchings wrote:
Now that I think about it, initramfs-tools does allow other packages to override the configuration for mkinitramfs through shell scripts in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d. This seems like a good reason to do that.
I've recently implemented doing this: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/flash-kernel/merge_requests/16/ (But I didn't add the relevant machine db entries for this device).