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 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: scsi-smartpqi-allow-static-build-built-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From dc2db1dc5fb9ab3a43b305c2720fee5278dbee2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Steffen Weber steffen.weber@gmail.com Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:24:09 +0100 Subject: scsi: smartpqi: allow static build ("built-in")

From: Steffen Weber steffen.weber@gmail.com

commit dc2db1dc5fb9ab3a43b305c2720fee5278dbee2a upstream.

If CONFIG_SCSI_SMARTPQI=y then don't build this driver as a module.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Weber steffen.weber@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- 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@gmail.com are

queue-4.15/scsi-smartpqi-allow-static-build-built-in.patch