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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/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.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/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c b/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c index 68de89167b49..9709dd173ddc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c @@ -1575,8 +1575,6 @@ do_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) data[3] = mii_rd(ioaddr, data[0] & 0x1f, data[1] & 0x1f); break; case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write the specified MII register */ - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; mii_wr(ioaddr, data[0] & 0x1f, data[1] & 0x1f, data[2], 16); break; default: |