> I'd rather get rid of the link flags and have driver specific
> configuration commands (or compile-time switches for settings necessary
> at boot time).

Yuck.  One giant step backwards!!

I regularly change my 3c589 from UTP to BNC and it would be horribly
inconvenient to have to reboot each time.  This is the PCMCIA ethernet
card, and yes I move regularly (at least once a day) from the thin-wire net
at home to the twisted pair at work.  This should remain a run-time option.

Dave