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/skge.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/skge.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/skge.c b/drivers/net/skge.c index 1a1e68549f5c..62e852e21ab2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/skge.c +++ b/drivers/net/skge.c @@ -2496,9 +2496,6 @@ static int skge_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) } case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - spin_lock_bh(&hw->phy_lock); if (hw->chip_id == CHIP_ID_GENESIS) err = xm_phy_write(hw, skge->port, data->reg_num & 0x1f, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b