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| author |   Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/ibm_newemac | |
| parent | netdev: Remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE aliases for MDIO ioctls (diff) | |
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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/ibm_newemac')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index 24ae671e4cb2..8a95234d419c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -2225,8 +2225,6 @@ static int emac_ioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) return 0; case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; emac_mdio_write(ndev, dev->phy.address, data[1], data[2]); return 0; default: |