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/tg3.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/tg3.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c index bd498105260..7cf80006eaf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c @@ -10610,9 +10610,6 @@ static int tg3_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) if (tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_PHY_SERDES) break; /* We have no PHY */ - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - if (tp->link_config.phy_is_low_power) return -EAGAIN; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258