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/sis900.c b/drivers/net/sis900.c
index d8827323507a..97949d0a699b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sis900.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sis900.c
@@ -2128,8 +2128,6 @@ static int mii_ioctl(struct net_device *net_dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
                 return 0;
 
         case SIOCSMIIREG:               /* Write MII PHY register. */
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 mdio_write(net_dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f, data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in);
                 return 0;
         default: