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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700
commit7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch)
treee305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/mii.c
parentaae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (diff)
downloadlinux-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.tar.bz2
netdev: Remove redundant checks for CAP_NET_ADMIN in MDIO implementations
dev_ioctl() already checks capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) before calling the driver's implementation of MDIO ioctls. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/mii.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/mii.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/mii.c b/drivers/net/mii.c
index d81a5d22a3a9..210b2b164b30 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mii.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mii.c
@@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ int generic_mii_ioctl(struct mii_if_info *mii_if,
case SIOCSMIIREG: {
u16 val = mii_data->val_in;
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
-
if (mii_data->phy_id == mii_if->phy_id) {
switch(mii_data->reg_num) {
case MII_BMCR: {