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In message: <xzpllmpk6ds.fsf@dwp.des.no>
            des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: > : It should be a simple matter to reimplement devinfo(8) to use the=
 dev
: > : sysctl tree.  Does anything else than devinfo(8) use devinfo(3)?
: > I don't think that anything else does use it.  However, devctl is
: > closely related and is used by devd.
: =

: I don't see any reason to modify or remove devctl....

I don't see any reason to have two almost similar things in the tree
when one will do.

Warner