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, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c b/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c
index c47ba3610c58..0c44b48f1384 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c
@@ -1784,11 +1784,6 @@ static int netdrv_ioctl (struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
                 break;
 
         case SIOCSMIIREG:               /* Write MII PHY register. */
-                if (!capable (CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
-                        rc = -EPERM;
-                        break;
-                }
-
                 spin_lock_irqsave (&tp->lock, flags);
                 mdio_write (dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in);
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore (&tp->lock, flags);