diff --git a/srpt/Makefile b/srpt/Makefile
index c93a1179d..2c113eafc 100644
--- a/srpt/Makefile
+++ b/srpt/Makefile
@@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ conftest/create_send_mad_base/result-$(KVER).txt:			\
 	echo "$(call run_conftest,create_send_mad_base,			\
 		-DCREATE_SEND_MAD_HAS_BASE_ARG)" >"$@"
 
+conftest/dev_attr_max_send_sge/result-$(KVER).txt:			\
+	conftest/dev_attr_max_send_sge/dev_attr_max_send_sge.c		\
+	conftest/dev_attr_max_send_sge/Makefile
+	echo "$(call run_conftest_bool,dev_attr_max_send_sge,		\
+		HAVE_DEV_ATTR_MAX_SEND_SGE)" >"$@"
+
 conftest/gid_change/result-$(KVER).txt:					\
 	conftest/gid_change/gid_change.c				\
 	conftest/gid_change/Makefile
diff --git a/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c b/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c
index 85cd2bdda..3c4a46f48 100644
--- a/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c
+++ b/srpt/src/ib_srpt.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2006 - 2009 Mellanox Technology Inc.  All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (C) 2008 - 2017 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>.
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 - 2018 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>.
  * Copyright (C) 2008 Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
  *
  * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
@@ -2249,7 +2249,7 @@ retry:
 	 * max_sge values < max_sge_delta, use max_sge. For intermediate
 	 * max_sge values, use max_sge_delta.
 	 */
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 18, 0)
+#if HAVE_DEV_ATTR_MAX_SEND_SGE
 	ch->max_send_sge = sdev->dev_attr.max_send_sge;
 	ch->max_recv_sge = sdev->dev_attr.max_recv_sge;
 #else
diff --git a/srpt/src/ib_srpt.h b/srpt/src/ib_srpt.h
index 8339091d9..7eb7e51fe 100644
--- a/srpt/src/ib_srpt.h
+++ b/srpt/src/ib_srpt.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2006 - 2009 Mellanox Technology Inc.  All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (C) 2009 - 2017 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>.
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 - 2018 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>.
  *
  * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
  * licenses.  You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU