On Friday January 20, john@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
