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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/amd8111e.c b/drivers/net/amd8111e.c
index 98b5f462c092..4e6359fff0e1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amd8111e.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amd8111e.c
@@ -1524,9 +1524,6 @@ static int amd8111e_ioctl(struct net_device * dev , struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
         int err;
         u32 mii_regval;
 
-        if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                return -EPERM;
-
         switch(cmd) {
         case SIOCGMIIPHY:
                 data->phy_id = lp->ext_phy_addr;