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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2009-09-03 12:39:43 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-04 05:02:11 +0200
commit7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch)
treee305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/phy
parentnetdev: Remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE aliases for MDIO ioctls (diff)
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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>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index eda94fcd4065..6b71b0034060 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -324,9 +324,6 @@ int phy_mii_ioctl(struct phy_device *phydev,
break;
case SIOCSMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
-
if (mii_data->phy_id == phydev->addr) {
switch(mii_data->reg_num) {
case MII_BMCR: