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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] remove fs/Kconfig from sparse tree in favor of a

>It is a good example of the sparse tree not being very compact
>representation of those diffs.  But it's valid in the sense that files
>that need Xen specific changes are patched and tracked as source in the
>sparse tree rather than diffs.  The latter gets to be a pain when you
>want to make changes, interdiff isn't that nice.  And if you want to
>track all this stuff in another tree (distro tree, for example) having
>bits in sparse and bits in patches/ is just more of a headache.

Exactly. This is the very reason why we would actually want to see patches/ 
hold as little stuff as possible.

Jan

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