What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)

[Miguel]

John-Mark Gurney wrote:

>GENERIC is already so large, that if you want/need a smaller kernel,
>you're going to rebuild anyways, 
>
>Since I care about that extra 2megs, I recompiled my own kernel,
>  
>
And the real problem of a big kernel is????
I dont understand exactly why do you have to recompile, unless a new 
future is needed, like SMP, isnt it?, what harm is doing those extra megs?
May be you could clarify on this (for the newbies... :-) ), i always add 
things to generic instead of cut them down, especially that im not an 
expert on every future commented there, and i am scared to break working 
things, openbsd recomends dont recompile, shoul we?
thanks