block: introduce GENHD_FL_HIDDEN

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With this flag a driver can create a gendisk that can be used for I/O
submission inside the kernel, but which is not registered as user
facing block device.  This will be useful for the NVMe multipath
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Christoph Hellwig 2017-11-02 21:29:53 +03:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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