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/tulip/tulip_core.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c') 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) { -- cgit v1.2.3