Comment 22 for bug 222663

ttoine,

I understand and know that. I also use a custom alsa-firmware package with my multiface.
What I just say here is that the solution is incomplete and that's why I insist on this change!
There's a few scenarios where people might want to load the firmware manually through hdsploader.
i.e. custom kernel without autoloading, failure to autoload firmware, multiface (re)plugged after boot (this is known to cause problems) etc.
If we don't update the alsa-firmware-loader package which is part of the alsa-tools source package, this tool will be broken because it'll still be searching for the firmware(s) in the wrong place! Just have a look at the code...
Dropping the whole patch might be a bad idea though because it can have an impact on firmware loading for other interfaces but we definitely need to think about that.
... no?