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, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index 24ae671e4cb2..8a95234d419c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -2225,8 +2225,6 @@ static int emac_ioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
                 return 0;
 
         case SIOCSMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 emac_mdio_write(ndev, dev->phy.address, data[1], data[2]);
                 return 0;
         default: