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/pci-skeleton.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c') 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); -- cgit v1.2.1