Add a man page for REMOVING devices from devfs.

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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Julian Elischer
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+.\" $Id: devfs_remove_dev.9,v 1.7 1996/05/13 14:59:15 julian Exp $
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+.Dd December 25, 1997
+.Os FreeBSD
+.Dt DEVFS_REMOVE_DEV 9
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm devfs_remove_dev
+.Nd  remove all references to a devfs device node and delete the node.
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/devfsext.h>
+.Ft void 
+.Fn devfs_remove_dev "void * token"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The function
+.Nm
+takes a token from a previous call to
+.Fn devfs_add_devswf
+or
+.Fn devfs_link
+as argument, and removes any trace of that device from device filesystems.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr devfs_add_devswf 9
+.Xr devfs_link 9
+.Sh HISTORY
+The function
+.Nm
+appeared in
+.Fx 2.2 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+DEVFS was written by
+.if n Julian Elischer.