NICs not in GENERIC

[Navdeep Parhar]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or shall  
> not be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)?

No specific reason for these two:

>  - if_cxgb
>  - if_cxgbe

But I do prefer to load them as modules (and as late as possible --
after sysctl.conf has been processed and any nmbclusters, nmbjumboXX
settings have taken affect).

Other than root over NFS, is there any reason to have NIC drivers in
GENERIC?

Regards,
Navdeep