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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700
commit7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch)
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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/cassini.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/cassini.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/cassini.c b/drivers/net/cassini.c
index 7517dc1..05916aa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cassini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cassini.c
@@ -4875,10 +4875,6 @@ static int cas_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
break;
case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
- rc = -EPERM;
- break;
- }
spin_lock_irqsave(&cp->lock, flags);
cas_mif_poll(cp, 0);
rc = cas_phy_write(cp, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in);