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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/yellowfin.c | |
| parent | aae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (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/yellowfin.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/yellowfin.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/yellowfin.c b/drivers/net/yellowfin.c index 4987040c414b..40ad0dee0406 100644 --- a/drivers/net/yellowfin.c +++ b/drivers/net/yellowfin.c @@ -1365,8 +1365,6 @@ static int netdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) return 0; case SIOCSMIIREG: /* Write MII PHY register. */ - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; if (data->phy_id == np->phys[0]) { u16 value = data->val_in; switch (data->reg_num) { |