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/tlan.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/tlan.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/tlan.c b/drivers/net/tlan.c index 49e273bceed6..3d31b47332bb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/tlan.c @@ -1004,8 +1004,6 @@ static int TLan_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */ - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; TLan_MiiWriteReg(dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in); return 0; -- cgit v1.2.3