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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/tulip/tulip_core.c | |
| parent | aae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (diff) | |
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/tulip/tulip_core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c b/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c index b89b73c0b30..6b2330e4206 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c @@ -923,8 +923,6 @@ static int private_ioctl (struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) return 0; case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */ - if (!capable (CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; if (regnum & ~0x1f) return -EINVAL; if (data->phy_id == phy) { |