diff --git a/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.8 b/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.8
index f9c8eee08487..b85f81d23426 100644
--- a/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.8
+++ b/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.8
@@ -207,9 +207,6 @@ A device identifier can take one of three forms:
 .Bl -tag -width 14n
 .It deviceUNIT
 Specify a device name and unit number combination, like "da5" or "cd3".
-Note that character device node names (e.g.\& /dev/da0) are
-.Em not
-allowed here.
 .It bus:target
 Specify a bus number and target id.
 The bus number can be determined from
diff --git a/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c b/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c
index 9f269066f6dc..b92cc4c183dc 100644
--- a/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c
+++ b/sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c
@@ -4605,15 +4605,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 		char name[30];
 		int rv;
 
-		/*
-		 * First catch people who try to do things like:
-		 * camcontrol tur /dev/da0 
-		 * camcontrol doesn't take device nodes as arguments.
-		 */
-		if (argv[2][0] == '/') {
-			warnx("%s is not a valid device identifier", argv[2]);
-			errx(1, "please read the camcontrol(8) man page");
-		} else if (isdigit(argv[2][0])) {
+		if (isdigit(argv[2][0])) {
 			/* device specified as bus:target[:lun] */
 			rv = parse_btl(argv[2], &bus, &target, &lun, &arglist);
 			if (rv < 2)