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In principle there's no reason an init shouldn't look at the kernel command line and be more verbose if debug is specified; the problem here was that systemd had two failed assertions that spammed kmsg.

The context here is that udev has been more or less broken since Sievers took it over a few years ago, and Linus has grown progressively more frustrated with

1. its firmware loading not checking for race conditions that lead to a lockup, and
2. Siever's insistence that loading firmware shouldn't be udev's job and the kernel should do it (putting the loading of firmware into userspace was the specific purpose for leaving devfs for udev in the first place)