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/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c b/drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c
index 3b681c1d7523..4f2fef6cf6dc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c
@@ -706,8 +706,6 @@ static int axnet_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
         data[3] = mdio_read(mii_addr, data[0], data[1] & 0x1f);
         return 0;
     case SIOCSMIIREG:           /* Write MII PHY register. */
-        if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-            return -EPERM;
         mdio_write(mii_addr, data[0], data[1] & 0x1f, data[2]);
         return 0;
     }