Comment # 19 on bug 1116849 from Martin Wilck

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #18)
>  - why YaST2 forces the loading of snd-hda-intel on this system ?

Good question. The module used to be loaded just fine with HW autodetection,
AFAIK. Perhaps there are some corner cases where autodetection doesn't work?
Anyway IMO "modules-load.d" should always be a last resort. There are plenty of
other ways to enforce module load order.

>  - do we really need to load snd-hda-intel in initrd ?

I'd say definitely not, unless we're targeting text-to-speech for the dracut
emergency mode.

> 
>      - if not, we might want to prevent dracut from including it somehow

We'd need a general mechanism to tell dracut which modules-load.d files to
include and which to exclude. I'm not aware of such a thing.

>      - if so, yast2 should make sure that snd-hda-intel is embedded (not sure
>        to understand why dracut didn't pick it up though. Even if hostonly=1
>        is used it should have selected it I think)

@Freek, could you provide "dracut --debug" output from your system?