Comment # 20 on bug 1151552 from Andreas Jaeger

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #19)
> Now I'm back to work, and trying to catch up.
> 
> So, didn't my previous workaround (adding Requires: dracut >= 049 to
> kernel-firmware-xxx packages) work as expected?  I thought it worked out
> when I tested on VM, but maybe I overlooked something.

It worked in the end. But it took one week for that change to show up in the
obs Kernel:stable and I was confused during that time.

> Exactly what kind of behavior did it show?
> 
> Basically, we shouldn't install compressed firmware packages even if the
> patched dracut is installed.  The other components (e.g. module-init-tools
> script) may be incompatible with it.

It works for me ;)

> Of course, it'd be still safer to add the support to dracut; user may
> install the compressed firmware files manually, too.

Agreed.