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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700
commit7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch)
treee305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/via-velocity.c
parentaae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (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/via-velocity.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/via-velocity.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
index ced1446..e04e5be 100644
--- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
+++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
@@ -2328,14 +2328,10 @@ static int velocity_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd
miidata->phy_id = readb(&regs->MIIADR) & 0x1f;
break;
case SIOCGMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
if (velocity_mii_read(vptr->mac_regs, miidata->reg_num & 0x1f, &(miidata->val_out)) < 0)
return -ETIMEDOUT;
break;
case SIOCSMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags);
err = velocity_mii_write(vptr->mac_regs, miidata->reg_num & 0x1f, miidata->val_in);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vptr->lock, flags);
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