From 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:39:43 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/phy/phy.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c index eda94fcd4065..6b71b0034060 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -324,9 +324,6 @@ int phy_mii_ioctl(struct phy_device *phydev, break; case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - if (mii_data->phy_id == phydev->addr) { switch(mii_data->reg_num) { case MII_BMCR: -- cgit v1.2.3