Proposing tapset MAJOR(), MINOR(), and MKDEV() function

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
> It might be useful to have wrappers functions in systemtap to make
> handling major and minor device numbers a bit more portable:
>
> MAJOR(kdev_t dev)           extract major device number
> MINOR(kdev_t dev)	      extract minor device number
> MKDEV(int major, int minor) generate device number
> [...]

Certainly.  This sort of abstraction is natural for the tapset, so
does not require much deliberation.  Your code is fine.  To complete
the work, it'd need a few lines of documentation in stapfuncs.5 and a
test case to compile the functions.

- FChE