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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)
treee305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/atl1e
parentaae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (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/atl1e')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
index bca127e65f95..69b830f4b68f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
@@ -453,10 +453,6 @@ static int atl1e_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev,
break;
case SIOCGMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
- retval = -EPERM;
- goto out;
- }
if (atl1e_read_phy_reg(&adapter->hw, data->reg_num & 0x1F,
&data->val_out)) {
retval = -EIO;
@@ -465,10 +461,6 @@ static int atl1e_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev,
break;
case SIOCSMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
- retval = -EPERM;
- goto out;
- }
if (data->reg_num & ~(0x1F)) {
retval = -EFAULT;
goto out;