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/yellowfin.c b/drivers/net/yellowfin.c
index 4987040c414b..40ad0dee0406 100644
--- a/drivers/net/yellowfin.c
+++ b/drivers/net/yellowfin.c
@@ -1365,8 +1365,6 @@ static int netdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
                 return 0;
 
         case SIOCSMIIREG:               /* Write MII PHY register. */
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 if (data->phy_id == np->phys[0]) {
                         u16 value = data->val_in;
                         switch (data->reg_num) {