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/bnx2.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/bnx2.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/bnx2.c index 1357d548e698..08cddb6ff740 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bnx2.c +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2.c @@ -7480,9 +7480,6 @@ bnx2_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) } case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - if (bp->phy_flags & BNX2_PHY_FLAG_REMOTE_PHY_CAP) return -EOPNOTSUPP; -- cgit v1.2.3