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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/tulip
parentaae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (diff)
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/tulip')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c2
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c b/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
index b89b73c0b30..6b2330e4206 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
@@ -923,8 +923,6 @@ static int private_ioctl (struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
return 0;
case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */
- if (!capable (CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
if (regnum & ~0x1f)
return -EINVAL;
if (data->phy_id == phy) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c b/drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c
index 3e59397e538..b38d3b7f6e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c
@@ -1470,8 +1470,6 @@ static int netdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
return 0;
case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
spin_lock_irq(&np->lock);
mdio_write(dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in);
spin_unlock_irq(&np->lock);