This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: smartpqi: allow static build ("built-in") to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-smartpqi-allow-static-build-built-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dc2db1dc5fb9ab3a43b305c2720fee5278dbee2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Weber <steffen.weber@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:24:09 +0100 Subject: scsi: smartpqi: allow static build ("built-in") From: Steffen Weber <steffen.weber@xxxxxxxxx> commit dc2db1dc5fb9ab3a43b305c2720fee5278dbee2a upstream. If CONFIG_SCSI_SMARTPQI=y then don't build this driver as a module. Signed-off-by: Steffen Weber <steffen.weber@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/smartpqi/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/Makefile +++ b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ ccflags-y += -I. -obj-m += smartpqi.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_SMARTPQI) += smartpqi.o smartpqi-objs := smartpqi_init.o smartpqi_sis.o smartpqi_sas_transport.o Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from steffen.weber@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scsi-smartpqi-allow-static-build-built-in.patch