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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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On Friday January 20, john@stoffel.org wrote:
> Though now that I look at it, don't we have a circular reference
> here?  Let me quote the code section, which starts of with where I was
> confused: 
..
> 
> Now we seem to end up with:
> 
> 	mddev->private = conf;
> 	conf->mddev = mddev;
> 

This is simply to related structures each holding a reference to the
other.  It's like the child pointing to the parent, and the parent
pointing to the child, which you get all the time.

NeilBrown