From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 17:51:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1205) id 2B55D106566C; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:51:11 +0000 From: Navdeep Parhar To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20120221175111.GA41049@hub.freebsd.org> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Leidinger , current@FreeBSD.org, marius@FreeBSD.org, gallatin@FreeBSD.org References: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: marius@FreeBSD.org, gallatin@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NICs not in GENERIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:51:11 -0000 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