Here's you, quoting Races and Classes:
"Sunshine and Perfection" encompasses Drizzt more than horns and brimstone. Believe me? Read any of Salvatore's books. Try to slog through the basalt-thick tripe that are Drizzt's journal entries at the beginning of each Act. They are full of "Why can't we all just get along"s. The "angst" comes from the "Woe, everyone is mean to me, where be my acceptance?", "There is so much evil in the world. It's not right," and other 'outwardly stoic, inwardly crying and desperately in need of a hug' stuff. He, honest to god, touched a unicorn in Sojourn. Du'Urden craps rainbows.
Tieflings are, well, horns and brimstone. It's "Evil-Curious" and "The Bad Boy", lacking only a pompadour (but I think that's because it just doesn't work with the horns). They scream "YEAH I've got infernal redbull pumping through my veins; want to fight about it?" that reaches out to every angry or cynical teenager in the world who thinks he's too cool in his trench coat. They are a race of John Bender, Fonzi, Marlon Brando, Captain Jack Sparrow, Spike, Dirty Harry, Rudy, Neo, Gambit and Wolverine in a blender.
So I don't see how one can connect Drizzt to the Tieflings.