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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2009-09-03 12:39:43 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-04 05:02:11 +0200 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/tlan.c | |
| parent | netdev: Remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE aliases for MDIO ioctls (diff) | |
| download | linux-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.tar.xz linux-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.zip | |
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.c | 2 |
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; |