Hello,

at boot udev (175-7.2 from debian unstable) blocks for maybe 30 seconds 
and then gives (handcopied)

  timeout: killing '/sbin/modprobe -b 
pci:v00008086d0000293Esv0000144Dsd0000C045bc04sc03i00'

when booting 3.9.8. 3.8.13 has the same issue, 3.6.0 is fine.

The pci id matches the audio device and in fact the module is not loaded:

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio 
Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c045
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
	Memory at f8620000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

In /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf i have:
options snd-hda-intel model=ultra

A manual `modprobe snd-hda-intel` works perfectly fine:

[16018.432762] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[16018.509390] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input12
[16018.565581] input: HDA Intel HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13
[16018.565671] input: HDA Intel Mic as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input14
[16018.565749] input: HDA Intel Headphone as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input15

I've tried both these with 3.9.8 but does not change anything:

@@ -969,7 +981,7 @@
  CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
  # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
  CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
-# CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is not set
+CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
  # CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set
  # CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is not set
  CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y

The only sound related change from 3.6.0 config to 3.9.8 one is:

@@ -2133,7 +2246,6 @@
  # CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA is not set
  # CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054 is not set
  CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
-CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE=y
  CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
  # CONFIG_SND_HDSP is not set
  # CONFIG_SND_HDSPM is not set

thanks in advance,
riccardo