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/igb/igb_main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/igb') diff --git a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c index 90b0b1b91730..943186b78483 100644 --- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c @@ -4914,8 +4914,6 @@ static int igb_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) data->phy_id = adapter->hw.phy.addr; break; case SIOCGMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; if (igb_read_phy_reg(&adapter->hw, data->reg_num & 0x1F, &data->val_out)) return -EIO; -- cgit v1.2.1