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| author | Ben Hutchings | 2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c | |
| parent | aae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (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/pci-skeleton.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c b/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c index c47ba3610c58..0c44b48f1384 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c +++ b/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c @@ -1784,11 +1784,6 @@ static int netdrv_ioctl (struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) break; case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */ - if (!capable (CAP_NET_ADMIN)) { - rc = -EPERM; - break; - } - spin_lock_irqsave (&tp->lock, flags); mdio_write (dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in); spin_unlock_irqrestore (&tp->lock, flags); |