[ewg] OFED-1.4.2 GA is available

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

I am pleased to announce that OFED-1.4.2 GA release is done

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4.2/OFED-1.4.2.tgz

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/  for
OFED 1.4.2

Vladimir & Tziporet

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Release information:
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Linux Operating Systems:
      - RedHat EL4 up4:  2.6.9-42.ELsmp      *
      - RedHat EL4 up5:  2.6.9-55.ELsmp
      - RedHat EL4 up6:  2.6.9-67.ELsmp
      - RedHat EL4 up7:  2.6.9-78.ELsmp
      - RedHat EL5:      2.6.18-8.el5
      - RedHat EL5 up1:  2.6.18-53.el5
      - RedHat EL5 up2:  2.6.18-92.el5
      - RedHat EL5 up3:  2.6.18-128.el5
      - OEL 4.5:         2.6.9-55.ELsmp
      - OEL 5.2:         2.6.18-92.el5
      - CentOS 5.2:      2.6.18-92.el5
      - Fedora C9:       2.6.25-14.fc9          *
      - SLES10:          2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
      - SLES10 SP1:      2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
      - SLES10 SP1 up1:  2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
      - SLES10 SP2:      2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
      - SLES11 GA:       2.6.27.13-1-default
      - OpenSuSE 10.3:   2.6.22.5-31             *
      - kernel.org:      2.6.26 and 2.6.27

    * Minimal QA for these versions

Systems:
      * x86_64
      * x86
      * ia64
      * ppc64

Main Changes from OFED-1.4.1
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- NFSRDMA
Fix NULL pointer dereference when calling locks_release_private due to the fl_lmops pointer never being set.
crypto_alloc_hash calls are failing due to larval returning unexpected results.  Reverting nfs4_make_rec_clidname to use crypto_alloc_tfm.
kref safety checks were removed in previous versions due to kref behaving differently in 2.6.18 (and older).  

- RDS
Refactor end of __conn_create for readability
Fix completion notifications on blocking sockets
fix for double-def of assert_spin_locked in RHEL4_U4/5/6/7
RDS/IW:
Remove dead code
Remove page_shift variable from iwarp transport
RDS/IB: 
Always use PAGE_SIZE for FMR page size

- MLX4
map sufficient ICM memory for EQs
Failing probe function if not primary physical function
Add new device ID 0x6764
Fix post send of local invalidate and fast registration packets.

- MLX4_EN
Fix vlan flag endianess in LRO code.

- NES
Make LRO as default feature
fix qp refcount during disconnect
backport for LRO as default feature

- SDP
Fix BUG1672 - Data integrity error
Fix memory leak in bzcopy
Fix bad credits advertised when connection initiated
Fix compilation on i386 with gcc 3.4


- BACKPORTS
2.6.16_sles10_sp2: fix clear-dirty-page accounting.

- Bug fixes

See each component release notes for details on enhancements and bug
fixes