Hi Greg,
could you please apply commit dc2db1dc5fb9ab3a43b305c2720fee5278dbee2a ("scsi: smartpqi: allow static build") to 4.15-table, 4.14-stable and 4.9-stable?
(The smartpqi driver did not exist 4.4-stable, so there's no need to go back further.)
Thanks, Steffen