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Its a administration tool on solaris 10. It lets the system administrator manage the systems devices under /dev/* more effectively. Its one of the latest tool and is obsolating another similar tool (or a suite of device nodes configuration tools) called devfs .
Device autoconfiguration means that this tool, when invoked, would search for the relevant driver by running through all the drivers available for a given device hot attached to the system and also configures the relevant device node under /dev/ directory to access that device as a file operation on that node.