Comment 31 for bug 8050

I am thinking of implementing the solution described in my previous message
in the upcoming 1.0.7-3 release of the Debian alsa-driver package (= the
source for alsa-base and alsa-source). Upstream seems to have agreed[0]
to apply the patch, but not before the 1.0.9 cycle. I would apply the
patch locally until then and include the following in the module loader
configuration files:

    options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
    options snd-bt87x index=-2
    options snd-bt87x-overclock index=-2
    options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
    options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2

This will cause these drivers to start looking for free indexes at 1,
rather than at 0.

Any objections?

[0] https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=359