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/via-velocity.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/via-velocity.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c index ced1446dec04..e04e5bee005c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c +++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c @@ -2328,14 +2328,10 @@ static int velocity_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd miidata->phy_id = readb(®s->MIIADR) & 0x1f; break; case SIOCGMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; if (velocity_mii_read(vptr->mac_regs, miidata->reg_num & 0x1f, &(miidata->val_out)) < 0) return -ETIMEDOUT; break; case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags); err = velocity_mii_write(vptr->mac_regs, miidata->reg_num & 0x1f, miidata->val_in); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vptr->lock, flags); -- cgit v1.2.3