diff --git a/core/base_rules.mk b/core/base_rules.mk
index 68f880f26..c973997a8 100644
--- a/core/base_rules.mk
+++ b/core/base_rules.mk
@@ -533,13 +533,17 @@ endif
 
 ifndef LOCAL_IS_HOST_MODULE
 # Rule to install the module's companion init.rc.
-my_init_rc := $(LOCAL_INIT_RC_$(my_32_64_bit_suffix)) $(LOCAL_INIT_RC)
+ifneq ($(strip $(LOCAL_FULL_INIT_RC)),)
+my_init_rc := $(LOCAL_FULL_INIT_RC)
+else
+my_init_rc := $(foreach rc,$(LOCAL_INIT_RC_$(my_32_64_bit_suffix)) $(LOCAL_INIT_RC),$(LOCAL_PATH)/$(rc))
+endif
 ifneq ($(strip $(my_init_rc)),)
 # Make doesn't support recovery as an output partition, but some Soong modules installed in recovery
 # have init.rc files that need to be installed alongside them. Manually handle the case where the
 # output file is in the recovery partition.
 my_init_rc_path := $(if $(filter $(TARGET_RECOVERY_ROOT_OUT)/%,$(my_module_path)),$(TARGET_RECOVERY_ROOT_OUT)/system/etc,$(TARGET_OUT$(partition_tag)_ETC))
-my_init_rc_pairs := $(foreach rc,$(my_init_rc),$(LOCAL_PATH)/$(rc):$(my_init_rc_path)/init/$(notdir $(rc)))
+my_init_rc_pairs := $(foreach rc,$(my_init_rc),$(rc):$(my_init_rc_path)/init/$(notdir $(rc)))
 my_init_rc_installed := $(foreach rc,$(my_init_rc_pairs),$(call word-colon,2,$(rc)))
 
 # Make sure we only set up the copy rules once, even if another arch variant
diff --git a/core/clear_vars.mk b/core/clear_vars.mk
index e2864bf27..faca97ae8 100644
--- a/core/clear_vars.mk
+++ b/core/clear_vars.mk
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ LOCAL_FINDBUGS_FLAGS:=
 LOCAL_FORCE_STATIC_EXECUTABLE:=
 LOCAL_FULL_CLASSES_JACOCO_JAR:=
 LOCAL_FULL_CLASSES_PRE_JACOCO_JAR:=
+LOCAL_FULL_INIT_RC:=
 LOCAL_FULL_LIBS_MANIFEST_FILES:=
 LOCAL_FULL_MANIFEST_FILE:=
 LOCAL_FULL_TEST_CONFIG:=