diff --git a/meta-arm/recipes-kernel/ffa-debugfs/ffa-debugfs-mod_2.1.0.bb b/meta-arm/recipes-kernel/ffa-debugfs/ffa-debugfs-mod_2.1.0.bb
index 4fedad1c..03ce0135 100644
--- a/meta-arm/recipes-kernel/ffa-debugfs/ffa-debugfs-mod_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-arm/recipes-kernel/ffa-debugfs/ffa-debugfs-mod_2.1.0.bb
@@ -27,3 +27,13 @@ do_install:append() {
 }
 
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(arm|aarch64).*-linux"
+
+# Kernel modules currently RDEPEND on the kernel, which is troublesome when you want to put a
+# kernel module into a initramfs without pulling the kernel into the initramfs, which would be
+# silly.  Until this is a recommends the easiest way to handle this is to remove the dependency
+# in this recipe.
+PACKAGESPLITFUNCS:append = " remove_kernel_dependency"
+python remove_kernel_dependency() {
+  key = "RDEPENDS:kernel-module-arm-ffa-user-" + d.getVar("KERNEL_VERSION")
+  d.delVar(key)
+}