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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/mii.c | |
| parent | aae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (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/mii.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/mii.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/mii.c b/drivers/net/mii.c index d81a5d22a3a9..210b2b164b30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mii.c +++ b/drivers/net/mii.c @@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ int generic_mii_ioctl(struct mii_if_info *mii_if, case SIOCSMIIREG: { u16 val = mii_data->val_in; - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - if (mii_data->phy_id == mii_if->phy_id) { switch(mii_data->reg_num) { case MII_BMCR: { |
