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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2009-09-03 14:39:43 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-04 07:02:11 +0400 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/tg3.c | |
| parent | aae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.tar.xz | |
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/tg3.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/tg3.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c index bd4981052609..7cf80006eafa 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; |