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/sky2.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/sky2.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c index bab591b418df..00bc65a0aac9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c @@ -1214,9 +1214,6 @@ static int sky2_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) } case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - spin_lock_bh(&sky2->phy_lock); err = gm_phy_write(hw, sky2->port, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in); -- cgit v1.2.1