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/tlan.c b/drivers/net/tlan.c
index 49e273bceed6..3d31b47332bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tlan.c
@@ -1004,8 +1004,6 @@ static int TLan_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
 
 
         case SIOCSMIIREG:               /* Write MII PHY register. */
-                        if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                                return -EPERM;
                         TLan_MiiWriteReg(dev, data->phy_id & 0x1f,
                                          data->reg_num & 0x1f, data->val_in);
                         return 0;