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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/tlan.c
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/tlan.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tlan.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tlan.c b/drivers/net/tlan.c
index 49e273bceed6..3d31b47332bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tlan.c
@@ -1004,8 +1004,6 @@ static int TLan_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
TLan_MiiWriteReg(dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f,
data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in);
return 0;