Tue May  7 02:37:49 CEST 2002 ide-clean-57

Nuke /proc/ide. For explanations why, please see the frustrated comments in the
previous change log. If one still don't see why it wasn't a good thing,
well please just take a look at the following:

Kernel size before:

/usr/src/linux# size vmlinux
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1716049  403968  470252 2590269  27863d vmlinux
/usr/src/linux#

Kernel size after:

/usr/src/linux# size vmlinux
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1680993  403488  470124 2554605  26faed vmlinux
/usr/src/linux#

2% of overall size! And this is not exactly an minimalistic setup.
Wow! What a waste of space!!!! Not even counting the runtime size
of this crap! And then let's take a look at the following self
flattery:

-/*
- *  Copyright (C) 1997-1998	Mark Lord
- *
- * This is the /proc/ide/ filesystem implementation.
- *
- * The major reason this exists is to provide sufficient access
- * to driver and config data, such that user-mode programs can
- * be developed to handle chipset tuning for most PCI interfaces.
- * This should provide better utilities, and less kernel bloat.
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well there could only be an answer to this which would be
universally understandable in every Slavic language... but since
it's mothers day...

EOD.